Media: cibachrome photograph
Dimensions: 10 by 15.5 in.
Date: June 1979
Andy Goldsworthy was born in Chesire, UK, in 1956. He attended Bradford Art College (1974-1975) and received his Bachelor of Arts from Preston Polytechnic (1975-1978). He has won awards from the Scottish Art Council and received a honorary degree from the University of Bradford. A documentary about Goldsworthy's life and career ("Rivers and Tides") was filmed in 2001.
Goldsworthy creates his projects on-site and integrates his artwork into the structure of the site. Changes and decay caused by natural processes are part of the artwork. Also part of the creative process is the documentation of the project by means of photography. His philosophies are expressed in his work "Balancing Rock Misty", created in Langdale, Cumbria, UK, in 1979. " Each work grows, strays, decays—integral parts of a cycle which the photograph shows at its height, 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."
Artist's website:
http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/TEST/index.html
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