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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
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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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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.
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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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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 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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I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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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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