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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.
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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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 you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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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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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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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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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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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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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
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