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Art is not a career - it's a life.

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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Life
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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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There are occasions when I have moved boulders, but I'm reluctant to, especially ones that have been rooted in a place for many years.
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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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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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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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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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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'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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