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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

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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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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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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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'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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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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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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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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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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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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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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You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.
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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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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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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