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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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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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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 do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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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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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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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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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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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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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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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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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 early firings contained many stones.
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