andy-goldsworthy

I recently watched the documentary “Rivers and Tides” about British artist, Andy Goldsworthy, and was totally blown away. He works with an endless range of natural materials, and his intention is to work with landscapes, rather than leave his mark on them. Goldsworthy describes his work as an effort to understand his surroundings. In his own philosophical words:

Movement, change, light growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

Goldsworthy’s ephemeral works are only documented by his photography (he’s got to make a living somehow, right?). It was amazing to watch him work, his patience alone is to be coveted.

(image compilation via webecoist.com)

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