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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
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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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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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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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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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
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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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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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