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Info: Andy Goldsworthy Installation De Young (2005)
"At its most successful, my 'touch' looks into the heart of nature; most days I don't even get
close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch
is also transient-only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be
complete." -Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental sculptor in which his use of the natural
surroundings create an art form. He explores and experiments with various natural materiel
such as leaves, grasses, stones, wood, sand, clay, ice, and snow. The seasons and weather
determine the materials and the subject matter of his projects. With no preconceived ideas
about what he will create, Goldsworthy relies on what nature will give him. Goldsworthy "feels"
the energy from nature and transcends that energy into an art form. His transient sculptures
contradict the permanence of art in its historical pretense.
Because of this mortality of nature, Goldsworthy uses the photograph as a form of
documentation to capture the essence of his work. "Each work grows, stays, decays- integral
parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work
is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the
image. Process and decay are implicit."-Andy Goldsworthy.
close. These things are all part of a transient process that I cannot understand unless my touch
is also transient-only in this way can the cycle remain unbroken and the process be
complete." -Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy is an environmental sculptor in which his use of the natural
surroundings create an art form. He explores and experiments with various natural materiel
such as leaves, grasses, stones, wood, sand, clay, ice, and snow. The seasons and weather
determine the materials and the subject matter of his projects. With no preconceived ideas
about what he will create, Goldsworthy relies on what nature will give him. Goldsworthy "feels"
the energy from nature and transcends that energy into an art form. His transient sculptures
contradict the permanence of art in its historical pretense.
Because of this mortality of nature, Goldsworthy uses the photograph as a form of
documentation to capture the essence of his work. "Each work grows, stays, decays- integral
parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, marking the moment when the work
is most alive. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the
image. Process and decay are implicit."-Andy Goldsworthy.