Andy Goldsworthy

Contextual

Andy Goldsworthy, OBE, born 26th of July 1956 is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist producing site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.

I found Andy Goldsworthy's dvd in the library-Rivers and Tides. I loved the way he works with nature and in nature. His work becomes part of the environment. 

The following are some notes that I took while I was watching the dvd. the images are from the film. I photographed them from the screen on my iphone.

'Art is a form of nourishment.'

'I want to understand that state and that energy that I have in me, that i also feel in the plants and in the land.'

'I need the land'

Energy and flow that is running through the landscape.

Growth, time and change and the idea of flo in nature

' I've shook hands with the place.'

' Good art keeps you warm.'

I always like to touch the materials. You don't shake someone's hand with your gloves on.

You feel as if you've touched the heart of the place.

Tht's a way of understanding for me, seeing something that you've never seen before that was always there but that you were blind to.

That sense of energy when you are outside the art college

sense of breathlessness and uncertainty

total control can be the death of our work

trying to understand the stone

His sculpture kept falling down

I don't understand it well enough yet

I haven't simply made the piece to be destroyed by the sea. the work has been given to the sea as a gift.

The sea has taken the work and made more of than I could ever gope for

My homeplace is becoming more and more important to me- I can relate to this. In my early 20's all I wanted was to travel- to get away from home. I've found the past year since starting back at art college all of my work has been rooted in Turraheen. 

I have much more of a connection with home.