Call of the Wild
Patrick Dougherty
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2002
*Contrasting philosophies of environmentalism and urbanization are seen in this piece. Superfluous amounts of organic willow branches meander and spiral from lifeless concrete to form assortment vessels that appear to dispense water, a symbol of life and nature, into the cold concretes landscape to create reflecting pools. Utilizing living flora in a lifeless landscape, this piece demands us to act and prevent the bleak and fleeting future of nature.
From the title, look, and material, I would assume the intent and ideas are along those lines of environmentalism, but there was no information given. I found this artist a while back when hedid a work similar to this in front of downtown Shreveport's ArtSpace on Texas St. Here is the work that was in Shreveport:
All of his work is neat. See more on his website: http://www.stickwork.net/news.php
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I love his work in that it combines nature. the second picture was here in shreveport at Artspace. I actually watched him put this installation up at Artspace. it was very tedious and time consuming.
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