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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.

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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Growth
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Farming
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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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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
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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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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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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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Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
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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 not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.
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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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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.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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