Scottish sculptor Andy Goldsworthy creates artworks by arranging rocks, leaves, and sticks he finds in nature.
Although his stone portals, swirling ice cycles, and gradient ponds of leaves are ephemeral, he leaves a touch of magic to those natural environments.
Most of his artworks are considered transient and temporary, and many perceive it as a criticism of the Earth’s fragility. However, he maintains that the meaning behind it is much more complex and profound.
Land Artwork is created in nature, using stones, rocks, soil, organic media like branches, leaves, as smartly as other substances.
Goldsworthy uses sticks, stones, leaves, and anything else he finds outside to create stunning art installations, which look almost as if they were formed naturally.
Almost daily, Goldsworthy creates art by using the materials and conditions he meets wherever he is, either the land around his Scottish home, the mountain regions of Spain or France, or the sidewalks of Glasgow, New York City, or Rio de Janeiro.
Out of leaves, rocks, ice, snow, soil, rain, sunlight, and shadow, he creates works that exist shortly before they’re changed and erased by natural processes. Still, he documents them by capturing them.
While his early works were associated with decay and collapse, the newer ones are too stunning to be described as decay.
Their meanings are bound up with the forces they embody: materiality, memory, temporality, growth, permanence, vitality, decay, chance, and labor.
He’s intrigued by how we leave parts of ourselves behind, whether in our memory or the things we make. So everything changes after being touched.
Scroll down, take a look at some of his most impressive works:
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