Includes bibliographical references.

Artist Patrick Dougherty bends, weaves, sangs, and flexes saplings to create works of art inseparable from nature and landscape. With a dazzling variety of forms seamlessly interlaced into their context, whether freestanding or supported by nearby trees or buildings, his sculptures evoke fantastical images of nests, cocoons, and haystacks, as well as teapots, brooms, baskets, follies, the human face, and even a kind of modern primitive architecture. Constructed on-site with a team of local volunteers during three-week construction whirlwinds, bundles of inert sticks become rafts of energetic lines and intricate webs which somehow seem to have been born rather than built. Over the last twenty-five years, Dougherty has built more than two hundred works throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, every piece mesmerizing in its ability to fly through trees, overtake buildings, and virtually defy gravity. This volume is the artist's first monograph, featuring thirty-eight of his dynamic works which walk a fine line between architecture, landscape, and art-tangles of twigs and branches transformed into something wild, elegant, artful, and often humorous. As organic matter, the stick sculptures eventually disintegrate and fade back into the landscape, uniting with nature once again.