Monday, February 09, 2009  Patrick Dougherty's Civic Center
Trees 2  The sculptural project by Patrick Dougherty in Civic
Center Plaza, which he started building on Thursday...
...started taking shape by Saturday afternoon...  ...with
multiple sycamores sprouting otherworldly treehouses.  There's a
wonderful interview with Dougherty from last year in an online
journal called "Chief" (click here) where he explains how his
projects evolve.  My favorite Q&A was the following: "So do you
spend a lot of time teaching the volunteers?  I’m fond of saying
that everybody knows about sticks. They were our first building
materials—when you’re a child you go through your building
phase. So you know everything there is to know about sticks.
Even adults collect sticks. It just takes somebody like me to
bring it out of them. People feel the instinct—most people can
just walk up to the site and start working."   Matty Boy said...
The angle of the third picture down looks like the giant stick
thing might be behind the build