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I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

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
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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'm very fortunate to be able to do what I do and live the way I do.
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Confrontation is something that I accept as part of the project though not its purpose.
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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.
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
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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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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.
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I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.
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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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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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The photography is not the aim of the work the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
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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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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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Sometimes you need to stop doing something to really see it afresh.
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Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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I knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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Design implies a sense of mapping something out and then you follow the plan.
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