Posted
on December 2, 2015
I
love the sculptures of Patrick Dougherty, but I cannot feature a bio
of this artist on his birthday because do not know his birthday!
So
I am honoring Dougherty's stickwork, his crowd-sourced art, his
ephemeral sculptures today, December 2, because this is the
anniversary of the 2012 world premiere of the movie Bending
Sticks: The Sculpture of Patrick Dougherty.
Stickwork?
Dougherty
makes swirling murals and huddling villages and castles and
cocoons...and all manner of rustic-to-the-point-of-being-magical
sculptures out of nothing more than – sticks! He takes truckloads
of long, supple saplings that he bends and tucks and piles and twists
and weaves together.
Crowd-sourced?
Everywhere
Dougherty creates his sculptures, he invites ordinary, untrained
people to come help. And then he teaches them how to bend, tuck, and
twist sticks, just as he has been doing since childhood.
Inviting
the community that will house the art piece to actually participate
in helping to make the art piece is almost unheard of. And brilliant!
Talk
about public art!
Ephemeral?
When
you create sculptures out of sticks, your art work is going to break
down over time. The word ephemeral, which means “lasting for
a very short time,” is a bit of an exaggeration. But the sculptures
are much more temporary than marble statues or granite monuments, for
sure. They are designed to be enjoyed as temporary objects that
disintegrate and fall apart and become a part of the landscape again.
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