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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
Artist
Environmental Artist
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Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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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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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
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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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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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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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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 want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
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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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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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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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