Stick Art

I never posted a picture of Patrick Dougherty's stick sculpture, so here goes.

Can you find it? It is the primitive hut looking structures in the upper left. We put together four huts and a connecting flow of sticks using some local willow saplings. Patrick says that the thing could last years on it's own, they're that strong, but SCAD and/or Lacoste will probably remove them this year sometime. At first I was really skeptical that this guy was worth his weight in art. Pictures, especially this one which shows the context better than the actual sculpture, don't give justice to the magic these things possess. You have to walk through it and feel it. It is almost like a real-life Myst set - remnants from some mysterious ancient culture that one day appeared integrated into our own. Here's some more pics, just to be fair:



And here is some grapes, the sunrise, and most importantly Dave amongst the sticks. He keeps a xanga blog, but I don't want to sign into yet another internet site to find it. I could ask him, but he is in Venice, Italy for the Teatrio competition. We will find out the results when him, Mohamed and some others get back on Monday evening. I quiver with curiosity.