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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
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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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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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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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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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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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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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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'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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