Bending Sticks Into Sculptures
Highlights Champs|November 2017

Artist Patrick Dougherty has turned his love of nature into a career in art.

Dale-Marie Bryan
Bending Sticks Into Sculptures

Outside an art museum in Topeka, Kansas, a child peers from the window of what looks like a giant hobbit house. Other kids scamper through the house’s woven archway into a twisted twig tower. The house, made entirely of sticks, is a sculpture built by Patrick Dougherty. Most people call him the Stick Man.

Dougherty has created more than 200 of these stick sculptures all over the world. “I design my sculptures to look like they’ve always been there,” he says.

And Dougherty likes people to get “into” his work. If they arrive during the three weeks he takes to build a sculpture, he lets them build, too. “I want my work to help people enjoy nature.”

From Forts to Sculpture

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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة November 2017 من Highlights Champs.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.