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We often forget that we are nature.

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
Nature
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If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.
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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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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 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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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.
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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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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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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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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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I'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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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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I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.
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