ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — At Tingley Beach, there's a globe-shaped sculpture made of steel fish. The piece found its home next to the catch-and-release pond nearly twenty years ago, but the inspiration came long before that with an artist's North Dakota upbringing and an overseas trip.

"I grew up in a tiny town, so I could go anywhere I wanted from a young age by myself, with catchments, and frogs in the creek, and everything that goes along with that," said Colette Hosmer, the artist behind Fish Globe, who now resides in Santa Fe. "My whole early history in the art world had to do with natural things... I really didn't expect anyone or any gallery to be interested in the kinds of things I was doing. I was proven wrong."

In the coming years, Hosmer was invited to China 10 times for art-

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