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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
Artist
Environmental Artist
Environmentalist
Land Artist
Photographer
Sculptor
County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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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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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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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
Andy Goldsworthy
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.
Andy Goldsworthy
Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
Andy Goldsworthy
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
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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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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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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
Andy Goldsworthy
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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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
Andy Goldsworthy
One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
Andy Goldsworthy
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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