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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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
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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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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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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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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
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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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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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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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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 see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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