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Brent Drinkut / AP
Stephanie Straight, a freshman at St. Joseph's College, works on a natural materials sculpture by artist Patrick Dougherty in front of Pao Hall at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. Tuesday, March 22, 2011.
North Carolina-based artist Patrick Dougherty has gained an international reputation for his natural-wood structures and has created hundreds of monumental, site-specific sculptures around the world. His work is constructed from saplings gathered from local sources and shaped into massive, swirling forms as high as 40 feet. In his work, Dougherty combines his carpentry skills with his love for nature. In the early 1980s he began incorporating primitive techniques of building and experimenting with tree saplings as construction material.
You can see more installations by Dougherty from his website.
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This guy is amazing.
The Santa Barbara Natural History Museum let him build a structure some years ago. It was most interesting. However, the County Planners felt that since it was a building, it wasn't up to code and therefore a safety hazard.
In the end people were kept out of the inside and allowed only to view the outside, to satisfaction, and safety to all. Ribbit.
Reminded me of the Bower Bird. But, would have liked to see a wider view.