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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
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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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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
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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 very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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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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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 did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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