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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.

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
Wind
Land
Reflects
Understand
Temperature
Reality
Ice
Going
Snow
Leaves
Rain
Changes

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There's a huge number of things that are occurring with the ice works which fascinate me enormously, but it's driven by this kind of frantic race against time. And whilst that creates a huge amount of tension and problems, it's a tension that I think I feed off.
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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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At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature most days I don't even get close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch is also transient - only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be complete.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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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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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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When I do the permanent projects or the big projects, when a work is finished, that's the beginning of its life.
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I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
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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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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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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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I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work.
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I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
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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.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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