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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
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Follow
Plans
Design
Sense
Something
Mapping
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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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I love the winter. Well, I love all the seasons, but the winter is possibly one of the most intense.
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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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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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I'm dealing with the most important things there are: life and nature. If this doesn't work, if this doesn't sustain me, I can't go back to nature. I'm right there. There's nowhere to go, and that frightens me.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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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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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.
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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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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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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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