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The photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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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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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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Generally in New York, people just walk over you with no problem about that. Other countries, people want to resuscitate you, like, after a bit.
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I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
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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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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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Art is not a career - it's a life.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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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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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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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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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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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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