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BotanicalWild Roof Journal, July Issue, 2023
Photograph of Patrick Dougherty's art exhibit, THE ROOKERY, located at the Chicago Botanic Garden, captured in June of 2022.
"Colby, what a great picture! My son Sam who is my assistant and I had a great time building the work…even in the rain and cold."
-- Patrick Dougherty "Since the site for this sculpture is outlying to the general activity of the Garden, I wanted to create something that could signal itself from a distance. With that in mind, we built six tall thin towers with a series of connecting hallways. Using the yellow variety of willow provided by the Garden, we were able to delineate a swirling wave to unite the hallways and towers. This wave swoops up and down and all around to add visual excitement to the surface, and, together with golden domes on each tower, calls to visitors to come check it out."
-- Patrick Dougherty on: THE ROOKERY, 2022. |