How do Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels frame the sun during the solstices?

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Edmonia Lewis: Hagar — Western sculpture *Hagar*, marble sculpture by Edmonia Lewis, 1875; in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

In her earthwork Sun Tunnels (1973–76), located in the Great Basin Desert of Utah, artist Nancy Holt arranged four massive concrete pipes on their sides in an open X configuration. This specific placement allows the tunnels to frame the rising and setting sun during the summer and winter solstices.12