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The film captures the essential unpredictability of working with rivers and with tides, feels into a sense of liquidity in stone, travels with Goldsworthy underneath the skin of the earth and reveals colour and energy flowing through all things. He takes his fragile work – and it can be as fragile in stone as in ice or twigs – right to the edge of its collapse, a very beautiful balance and a very dramatic edge within the film. There is risk in everything that Goldsworthy does.

What he found was a profound sense of breathless discovery and uncertainty in Goldsworthy’s work, in contrast to the stability of conventional sculpture. The director worked with Goldsworthy for over a year to shoot this film. Now with this deeply moving film, shot in four countries and across four seasons, and the first major film he has allowed to be made, the elusive element of time adheres to his sculpture. The film received a number of awards, including the San Diego Film Critics Society and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle awards for best documentary. Rivers and Tides is a 2001 documentary about the artist, directed by filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.” I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding.

I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. “Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. There is an intensity about a work at its peak that I hope is expressed in the image. 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. Photography plays a crucial role in his art due to its often ephemeral and transient state. For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials. My remit is to work with nature as a whole.” Goldsworthy is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing. But I have to: I can’t edit the materials I work with. He has been quoted as saying, “I think it’s incredibly brave to be working flowers and leaves and petals.

The materials used in Goldsworthy’s art often include brightly-coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. His art involves the use of natural and found objects to create both temporary and permanent sculptures which draw out the character of their environment. Goldsworthy is a sculptor, photographer and environmentalist living in Scotland who produces site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. It’s also where he saw a painting in the lines of a plow on the land, a sculpture in a haystack, and where he realized that the idyllic landscape of rural England is one fashioned by sweat and privilege and kept green by death and dung.

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A Yorkshire farm was where, from the age of 13, British artist Andy Goldsworthy first learned his trade: how to use a shovel, skin a hare, build a dry-stone wall.

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