Shane Tolbert's new works are inspired by the Northern New Mexico mountains, weather, history and culture. In this new series, the focus is on lunar and solar views from the earth and how their daily cycles simultaneously build, shape and erode the landscape. The series feels a bit like an archeological dig of the earth to reveal the long-term impact of these daily and nightly cycles using the moon and the sun as a metaphor for the earth. These orbs are full of oppositions that create internal tensions to convey a sense of eruption and tectonic shifts amid passages of tranquility.
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