Hula Hooping is an art. Many people are unaware of hoop dancinc and how elegant and physically challenging it is. When you first pick up a hula hoop, and start learning the different ways of dance you can do with it, you create a bond with it. It sounds odd, but once you start hula hooping you can't put it down. It takes you to a new world, and is used very theraputically. I created this interupted landscape using the hula hoop because hoop dancing puts me into a new state of mind, and i go into my own little world. I wanted to portray a landscape through the hoop, so the hoop acted as if it were a window to a whole different world.
The first image with both the boy and the girl, i didnt only want to show the world beyond their hoops, but i wanted to show that their worlds were intersecting and becoming one. Like when a man and women start to share their lives through marriage, and mix their genes with a child they share.
The images inside the hula hoops were images I took last summer on the Washington coast. The image in the single hoop picture is a sunset in Seattle Washington.
