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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
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
Energy
Nature
Light
Change
Energies
Trying
Decay
Work
Growth
Life
Movement
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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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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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In contact with materials, I can see so much more with my hands than I can just with my eyes. I'm a participant, not a spectator. I see myself both as an object and a material, and the human presence is really important to the landscapes in which I work.
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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
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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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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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 take the opportunity each day offers.
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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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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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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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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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