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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.

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
Mapping
Implies
Plan
Follow
Plans
Design
Sense
Something

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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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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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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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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.
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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
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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'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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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'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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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.
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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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