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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

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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Interested
Fire
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Theatrical
Cautious
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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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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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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 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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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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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 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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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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