Boston’s New Swings Are Bringing You Right Back to the 90s

If Fun 107's Back in the Day Café were a swing set, this is exactly the type of swing set it would be.

Recently installed on the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston are two massive bamboo hoop earrings that people are encouraged to swing on. Yes, those shoulder scraping earrings of your youth are now swings you can enjoy in adulthood.

Okay, technically this is considered an art installation, but we can't help but see a swing set when we look at it.

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You have to love the interactive art installations that have been featured throughout Boston in recent years. From illuminated swings to light up stationary bikes that play music when you pedal, interesting art has been all over Boston parks and streets.

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Now a new art installation is taking many people back to their younger years.

That's because the "Big Hoops To Fill" piece from Roxbury artist Ja’Hari Ortega not only looks like jewelry you might have worn as a teenager, it lets you swing on them like a kid.

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Ortega's huge golden, bamboo hoops are not just swingable "door knocker earrings", journalist Ivette Feliciano also noted that they “symbolize resistance and bear cultural significance [especially for] immigrant communities rooted in Indigenous and African traditions.”

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The large scale fiber glass piece actually hangs from the swing set frame on thick earring clasps and the detail is amazing. This art display with meaning already has people posting their selfies with all over social media. Will you be next?

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