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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
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Environmental Artist
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
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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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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
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