. >> i've worked in the rain numerous times in ireland and scotland and worked in the cold in wisconsin or denmark or austria or italy. sometimes i have to use translators. but usually sticks become the universal language. >> the universal language of sticks and love. >> oh, i forgot that. yep, my wife and i we met through sculpture. >> his wife the museum curator, linda johnson dougherty. >> i mean it was really love at first sight. >> she's he been watching him pick up sticks for 22 years. is there a work that's particularly close to your heart? i mean, he is your husband. >> there is a beautiful piece that he did that looks like bramante's tempietto. a little classical temple. i wanted him to make me one at home and he hasn't done it. >> you don't have one? >> i don't have one. >> like wives everywhere, her project is at the bottom of a very long to-do list. how far in advance are you booked? >> booked through 2016 at the moment. starting to take a few in 2017. >> that's two years. >> we get offers every day. >> the kind of offers that museums make for original works of art to keep i