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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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Winter
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Patches
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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 think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.
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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's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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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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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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