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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.

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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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
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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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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'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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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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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.
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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 main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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