# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bhy8MEFBDLl
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045974-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-04-20T14:40:13.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. 〰️
Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956) is a British artist known for his environmentalist sculptures that are often situated outside and made out of earthly materials like stones, twigs, and branches. Inspired by Land Art of the 1960s, Goldsworthy’s works are inspired by and pay homage to the natural landscape. Goldsworthy deviates from his predecessors, however, by using a more modernist style that has a geometric elegance. For example, his vertical rock sculptures comprise of several stones stacked on top of each other to achieve a delicately balanced column. Oftentimes the construction of these works require meticilous hours of concentration. Working on farmland since he was thirteen, Goldsworthy has a deep affinity for outside labour. "A lot of my work is like picking potatoes;” Goldsworthy explains, “you have to get into the rhythm of it." Using only things found on the land (leaves, ice, sand, stones, etc.) and his own hands to manipulate the materials, Goldsworthy makes art within confines of what is naturally given. Although some of his sculptures commissioned by museums utilize machine processes to help them remain in a permanent state, most of Goldsworthy’s oeuvre has been site-specific and ephemeral and continue to exist only through photographs. For the artist, the photography of the piece becomes part of the work itself: "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." #AndyGoldsworthy

Image: Still from “Rivers and Tides” documentary, 2003. Dir. Thomas Riedelsheimer.

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