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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

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
Unnerving
Dangerous
Difficult
Nature
Beautiful

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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 just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.
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Complete control can be the death of a work.
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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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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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I take the opportunity each day offers.
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If I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.
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If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.
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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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If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
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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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I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.
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I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
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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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The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.
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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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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.
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The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
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