It seems she says in a quiet and restrained voice, it, too, shall pass. Her classical training (in Manila and Italy) brings to mind Landscape with Saint John on Patmos, 1640, by an original classicist, the French painter Nicolas Poussin, who depicts St John the Evangelist in exile recording his visions of the Apocalypse in the Book of Revelation. The ruins of Greek antiquity surrounding the Christian saint on the island of Patmos are telling - the new era is collapsing onto itself at the moment of its revelation, its alpha and omega at once.
