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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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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.
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People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and on the other, the city.
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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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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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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
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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 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.
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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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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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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.
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The early firings contained many stones.
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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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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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