Growing up with modest means in the mountains of East Tennessee, our toys were the rocks and sticks we found outside. We should all approach each walkabout outdoors with no fixed ideas and the eyes of a child, recapturing our sense of wonder. Since having children of my own, however, and seeing the intensity with which they discover through play, I have to acknowledge this in my work as well," writes British environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy in his book “Stone.” In the past I have felt uncomfortable when my work has been associated with children because of the implication that what I do is merely play. My art makes me see again what is there, and in this respect I am also rediscovering the child within. “Fixed ideas prevent me from seeing clearly. But all the pieces have energy and a dynamic spirit that transcends the original material and make such beautiful, temporary masterpieces. Not all of them work, but the art that he creates is dependant on the materials and the conditions as much as the intent. Probably the most amazing is a cairn that was stuck to a vertical cliff wall held in place by the frozen water between the stones. He makes the most amazing cairns and arches that sit in the landscape as if they have been there for years and are made from the materials that he has to hand such as slate or river stones. There are rocks taken in each season covered with different leaves, the black of ash to the autumnal red of hazel and interestingly shaped stones covered with leaves or surrounded with sticks at different parts of the year.īut this is a book primarily about him artistic exploration with stone. From the rain shadows that he creates to the use of icicles in dramatic ways. I love the way too that he uses the most transient elements of ice and water. This book has some of his most widely recognised images from the towers of stones that have a limited life beaches of the incoming tide, to the way a rock covered with leaves, takes on new dimensions and brings a start contrast to the surrounding forest. Andy Goldsworth has a knack of taking simple, natural, elements, such as leaves, stones, grasses and soil and transforming them into ethereal and sublime pieces of art.
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