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Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. it is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. the energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. the weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. when i touch a rock, i am touching and working the space around it. it is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.
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Looking, Touching, Material, Place And Form Are

Andy Goldsworthy
Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. it is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. the energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. the weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. when i touch a rock, i am touching and working the space around it. it is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.
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