The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance … - Andy Goldsworthy

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It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along. . . The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel.

Andy Goldsworthy

The underlying tension of a lot of my art is to try and look through the surface appearance of things. Inevitably, one way of getting beneath the surface is to introduce a hole, a window into what lies below.

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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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A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

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I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

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If you lay in the rain, every rain shower, storm, whatever, is different. Every surface is different.

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I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.

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