Enchanted Forest

I love the topsy turvy, wind tousled, enchanted-forest quality of Patrick Dougherty’s willow sculptures. Live-sized and halfway between a nest and a treehouse, the sculptures are probably the closest a sculptor can get to architecture. Whereas, the closest a interactive designer can get to architecture is a virtual walk-through. :(

“Dougherty’s works allude to nests, cocoons, hives, and lairs built by animals, as well as the manmade forms of huts, haystacks, and baskets, created by interweaving branches and twigs together. Many of his works look ‘found’ rather than made, as if they were created by the natural force of a tornado sweeping across the landscape. He intentionally tries for this effortless effect, as if his creations just fell or grew up naturally in their settings.”
— Linda Johnson, A Dialogue with Nature