Patrick Dougherty
Patrick Dougherty
affinity bare branches childhood evident forest lines material seems southern spent thick trees wandering winter
My affinity for trees as a material seems to come from a childhood spent wandering the forest around Southern Pines - a place with thick underbrush and many intersecting lines evident in the bare winter branches of trees.
branches common everybody human knows mass picked public somewhere sticks thread woven
Sticks are something we all have in common. Everybody knows sticks - the twigs and branches picked up on grandfather's farm; the branches woven in grandmother's basket. Somewhere threaded in all the public mass is a common thread, and that thread is the human spirit.
capitalize drama public work
I must be a public artist. I work in public, and I capitalize on the drama of building.