Salixology (WILLOWS & SCULPTURE) with Patrick Dougherty
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Oh hey, it's your new phone case you're not quite used to Ali Ward. And this is a big one for us. It's a big one for me. It's our 531st episode, but more importantly, this week marks the ninth anniversary since Ollogy's first episode came out. So we like to look up those anniversary guides, and I was thrilled to discover that the customary ninth anniversary gift is
Willow. I was like, what? I love willow. I grew up around it. We had a creek in my backyard right outside the gate in a pasture.
One of my favorite artists makes these willow sculptures. If you listen to the field trip episode at the Natural History Museum of LA County, I did years back. I talk about this willow structure built in the gardens that so buoyed my spirits during a really dark time that I named my production company after it, Willow Hud. That structure was built by an LA artist by the name of David Lovejoy, who had assisted this one internationally acclaimed willow sculpture pioneer whose work I've been obsessed with for for the past like 15 years.
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