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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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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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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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We often forget that we are nature.
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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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