Combining his carpentry skills with his love of nature, Patrick Dougherty began to learn primitive techniques of building and to experiment with tree saplings as construction material. Beginning about 1980 with small works fashioned in his backyard, he quickly moved from single pieces on conventional pedestals to monumental site-specific installations that require sticks by the truckload. To date he has built more than 200 such massive sculptures all over the world. His home base is his handmade log house in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he lives with his wife and son. He will be creating a site-specific installation on The Center’s lot across the street from the Ketchum post office on 2nd Avenue.