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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.

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
Dying
Born
Wells
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Landscape

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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
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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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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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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.
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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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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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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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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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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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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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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 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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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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