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Deriving its title from the historic, 1835 nine-hour hot air balloon excursion, Fulford fills the shoes of observer and protagonist, as our sights shift from scenes of a simultaneously fantastic and tumultuous American landscape, to the top tiers of indoor arenas, and finally arcing towards the heavens as we gaze down from above the clouds bidding a receding Earth farewell.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGregory Halpbern – Confederate Moons\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring a summer marked by a total eclipse of the sun, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eknown colloquially as \"The Great American Eclipse\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalpern chose North and South Carolina as the stage in which to capture this rare and fleeting event, one which\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e had not been visible across the entire contiguous United States since June 8th, 1918.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHalpern was particularly drawn to the ways in which the drama of that celestial coincidence intersected with the moments of life that directly preceded and followed it that year. 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