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My art recognizes the human place, the human context - especially in Britain, which is a landscape so worked by people for thousands of years, written, deeply ingrained with the presence of people.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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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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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
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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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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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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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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When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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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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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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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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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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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