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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
Memories
Geological
Ingrained
Stone
Historical
Stones

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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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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 take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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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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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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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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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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