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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.

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
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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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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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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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
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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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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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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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