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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.

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
Inside
Making
Energy
Everything

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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 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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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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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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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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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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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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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The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
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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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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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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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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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