Okay. I like weird stuff sometimes, but this is cool weird stuff.
Patrick Dougherty is a sculptor who uses tree saplings as construction material for his pieces. Here’s “Toad Hall,” a Dougherty installation at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden:
Uhm, I know I could get rained on and that there’s no indoor plumbing or running water or electricity or, well, anything, but I kind of want to live there. Or just sleep there overnight. Yes! A sleepover in Toad Hall would be awesome, don’t you think? Although we’d have to be careful not to burn down his sculpture when we make the S’mores. Some artists don’t like that.
Go here to click around on more of his work.
And I love sticks!
Go see!
Well, we do get sticks and paper from the same place. What’s not to love? 🙂
Isn’t just amazing, that someone could figure out how to do that? When I was a little kid, we had a subscription to (I think) a science magazine for children, and I remember seeing an article on all these trees that had been tied as saplings to form shapes. My favorite one was shaped like a heart. It was tempting to try, but I didn’t want to hurt any trees. Or get in trouble, of course.