Andy Goldsworthy Quotes About Growth
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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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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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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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Time gives growth, it gives continuity and it gives change. And in the case of some sculptures, time gives a patina to them.
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Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I 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. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.
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I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.
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