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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
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
Andrew Goldsworthy
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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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Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
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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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I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work 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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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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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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