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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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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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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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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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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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