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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.

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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I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.
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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
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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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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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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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If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.
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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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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.
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