A career of nearly three decades distinguishes artist Andy Goldsworthy's awareness of time as the abstract of all sequences. The 48-year-old sculptor works with materials of the land -- sticks and stones, leaves and flowers, giant boulders and grains of sand. His work tells us the earth was born of liquid rock just as we grow from indistinct embryos; the stone of the earth ages just as surely as the generations of plants and animals living and dying upon it.
Currently a professor-at-large of Cornell University, with permanent sculptures collected all over the world. At first glance, some of Goldsworthy's art appears simple, even childlike. Though much more complicated than just playing in a sandbox. He uses just about any natural material, like rock metals wood simply antyhing. I feel like he tries to stay as natural as possible. Though i did enjoy much of his art. Simplistic but equally moving and powerful.
Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state. According to Goldsworthy, "Each work grows, stays, decays – integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its heights, 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."
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