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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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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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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I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.
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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.
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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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