Dazzling Land Art Of Andy Goldsworthy

Jan 27, 2014 | Life With Art

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Andy Goldsworthy – British photographer, sculptor and environmentalist- uses nature as his paint and clay for art. The beauty of his work that stretches beyond the obviously good-looking aesthetics:  each piece if this site-specific art is meant to blow away, melt, and wash back into its beginnings, folding back into the Earth.

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Can you imagine to create this, like an icy house of cards…?!

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For Andy Goldsworthy, art is apparent everywhere.  In an interview with Time magazine, Goldsworthy talks about the impact of farming on his art:

“I lived near Leeds and worked from the age of 13 on a farm right where the suburbs began — and that was very important. I was always going to be an artist, since I was a kid, but the impact that farming had was tremendous. It’s a very sculptural activity. Not just dry stone walls but stacking bales — big minimalist sculptures, beautiful and enormous. Plowing a field is drawing lines on the land, painting the fields — it’s incredibly visual….” (you can read the whole article HERE) 

Suffice it to say, all of like can be art if you allow it to be.

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Like gold in a stream.

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It is so powerful to see that as this ice sculpture is bright to full-color light by the sun, it simultaneously turns to water drops that slide down each point.

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How much does this make you want to go hang out in a desert and collect stones, or is that just me?

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Ribbons of ice, mirroring the spirals of energy that seem to surround all stark forest trees.

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Stacked impossibly balanced stones are deliciously somehow exactly how they are supposed to be, if only for a moment.

Land art: Fleeting. Precious. Rough. Perfect. Challenging to the sensibilities, yet so seemingly “right.” .

There is beauty everywhere if you are open to see it. xoxo Dana

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1 Comment

  1. maggie

    I love Earth Art! So lovely.

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