What's all the hoopla in the park?

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[caption id="attachment_3428" align="alignnone" width="497"]Constructing HULA! installation Zhaleh Moulaei has her hands full, not just with the hoops, but also with all the questions about what she's doing from passersby. Click the image to enlarge it.
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For several days, two artists have been doing strange, and eye-catching things with, and to, pink and blue hula hoops -- hundreds of them! On the Columbia Street, and 8th Avenue corner of Jonathan Rogers Park, Zhaleh Moulaei and Byron Chiang have been building their HULA! art installation, which will be featured in front of Pacific Centre this August as part of the City of Vancouver's Viva Vancouver 2013. Here's a visualization of HULA! from a February proposal. Here's the HULA! Facebook page.

The HULA! artistsThe HULA! working model

The two artists are up to their ***'s in hoops. Note the working model -- the Mateus bottle represents Pacific Centre, I think. Click the images to enlarge them.

[caption id="attachment_3434" align="alignnone" width="497"]Choces, choices! Byron Chiang is making art, one hula hoop at a time.[/caption]
2 comments:
  1. said...

    Looking great! Thank you :)
    The wine bottle represents a lamp post we are attaching the hula hoops to :)

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