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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.

Andy Goldsworthy

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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
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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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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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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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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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We often forget that we are nature.
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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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The photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
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I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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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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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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