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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 did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
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Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
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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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Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.
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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.
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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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The process of growth is obviously critical to my understanding of the land and myself. So the process is far more unpredictable with far more compromises with the day, the weather, the material.
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My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.
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We often forget that we are nature.
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The essence of drawing is the line exploring space.
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We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.
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Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
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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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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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The early firings contained many stones.
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