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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

Andy Goldsworthy

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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
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I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
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I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
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