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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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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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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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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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'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
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I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
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