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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

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'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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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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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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 very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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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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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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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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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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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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