Stickwork COMING SOON:
When ecologist Dan Spada looks at a stand of Scotch pine, well, he doesn’t have much love. “It’s typically looked at as an invasive species,” he says. “It’s not native. And it’s not of much use for anything except pulp.”
But when he showed artist Patrick Dougherty around the Scotch pine grove near Wild Walk last fall, where Dougherty will construct his upcoming installation at The Wild Center, Spada got an entirely new perspective on something he had taken for granted. “When he started talking about his vision for the installation, how it was going to wrap around the trees and become part of it—the color and the form and the texture of the bark—I began to appreciate it even more than I had before,” he says. Dougherty’s sculptures, which have been erected around the world, weave branches and saplings to make fanciful, lifesize structures that visitors can walk through. He does all his 6