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The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.
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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People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 take the opportunity each day offers.
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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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