
Patterns in Patrick Dougherty's Stickworks
By Peter Halstead
While Patrick Dougherty is re-creating his sculpture, Daydreams, at Tippet Rise, in July of 2022, we thought it would be a good time to focus on those tendrils emerging from the schoolhouse, like the thoughts of schoolchildren playing hookey. They are not only escaping thoughts weaving together like wisps of smoke or fog, but they are in fact the actual patterns which brain waves create when we think, or dream.