- Researching primitive building techniques
- Maple is his favourite material
- The nature of making temporary art
- The joy of working with his son Sam Dougherty
- Finding the right scale for your artwork
- Being left handed and how that influenced his work
- How to fund large scale work
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- The importance of knowing when to stop working
- How he gets is site specific inspirations
- His dream project at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- Insurance for public art
- How he finds his sticks
- Working with the weather

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