British - Artist | July 26, 1956 -
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.
Andy Goldsworthy
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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
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A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories.
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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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Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.
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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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I enjoy working in a quiet and subversive way.
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Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
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Photography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
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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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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
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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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