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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
Storm
Lays
Surface
Rain
Whatever
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Showers

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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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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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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I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.
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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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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 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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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.
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When I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
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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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The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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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 main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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