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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
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
Andrew Goldsworthy
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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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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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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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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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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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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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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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