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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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 photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
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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'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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