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Complete control can be the death of a work.

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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Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
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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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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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It's just that when I work on someone else's land, it makes me aware of the social nature of that landscape.
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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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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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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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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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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.
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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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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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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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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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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.
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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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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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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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