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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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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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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
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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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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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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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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.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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