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I have six acres in front of my own house, which I very rarely work on. Most of the work occurs on farmers' fields around me. And I like the discipline of working on other people's land.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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Some of the snowballs have a kind of animal energy. Not just because of the materials inside them, but in the way that they appear caged, captured.
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I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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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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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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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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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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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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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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People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there.
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It's art that's taught me to think and to write.
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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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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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