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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
Change
Energies
Trying
Decay
Work
Growth
Life
Movement
Blood
Energy
Nature
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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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We often forget that we are nature.
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I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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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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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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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.
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The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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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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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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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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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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