![]() ![]() Some sculptures are so ephemeral - such as rainbowed splashes, or loose clusters of thrown sticks - that they can be appreciated fully only in a prolonged instant frozen on film.įor these ephemeral works, Goldsworthy uses almost nothing other than recording equipment of camera and notebook, a sharp eye for potential sites and materials, and a robust preparedness to work long hours in all sorts of weather. ![]() Originals lodge only in the memory of the artist, and maybe of a few fortunate others. For most of us they exist only second hand in photographs. Though Andy Goldsworthy has made enormous and relatively durable works such as those in Grizedale Forest (AR September 1985), some of his sculptures are tiny, even inconspicuous, and the vast majority - like those described above - are ephemeral. A chain of leaves slides slowly over the still surface of a pond, or even floats away in a conga dance on the surface of a stream, casting a shadow that leaps over pebbles and bright winking wave patterns in a self-destructive and frenzied fandango. In another season, coloured leaves or petals stuck by spittle form chains or patches of contrasting colours that soon break up as the parts curl up or blow away. On the next day, thin sharp shards project as a cluster of small translucent sails from the cold waters into which they are steadily dissolving. Soon each face melts, shards slip past each other, and the whole crashes into a chaos of scattered fragments that slowly seep into the earth. January 1983Ĭrystalline shards of ice, precariously poised beside a pond, form an arch that glistens and sparkles in the sunlight. Ice points, held upright in muddy pond bottom, Helbeck, Cumbrial. ![]()
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