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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.

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
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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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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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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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