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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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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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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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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
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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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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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As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have.
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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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If you've ever come across a tree that you've lived with for many years and then one day it's blown over, there's incredible shock and violence about that.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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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 essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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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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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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Art for me is a form of nourishment. I need the land. I need it.
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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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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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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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Everything has the energy of its making inside it.
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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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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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