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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.

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
Geological
Ingrained
Stone
Historical
Stones
Memories

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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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There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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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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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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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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The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
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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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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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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
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