The Mended Hoop

Selected New Works from Mended Hoop Camp
The Mended Hoop 8/23/01
©2001 Jim Needham, All Rights Reserved www.rockstacker.com

Mended Hoop Camp was the camp I made this month near where I had worked earlier in the year. During this visit I spent the better part of a week walking the river, visiting the stones and making new sculptures while gathering my Allies. Mended Hoop refers to the image I saw each moment while in camp. It was a stick rising from, and returning to, the water. The stick was curved and when it met with it's own reflection the circle was completed. Hence the Mended Hoop. I see the image as a guide that we may each utilize in the evaluation of our lives. When the image created by our actions is a natural form, it's reflection completes the circle of creation.

One with the stone.
9/01/2001

"The goal of your life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature." Joseph Campbell