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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.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Andy Goldsworthy
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: July 25
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Environmental Artist
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County Palatine of Chester
Andi Gōruzuwājī
Andrew Goldsworthy
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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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As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
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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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My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds - what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.
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The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.
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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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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves.
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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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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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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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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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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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Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realization. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.
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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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