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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
Childhood
Back
Provokes
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Responses
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Snow
Winter
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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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The early firings contained many stones.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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