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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

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 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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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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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 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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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.
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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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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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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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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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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
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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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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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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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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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