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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
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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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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
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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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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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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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