Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.
Andy GoldsworthyI did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
Andy GoldsworthyEphemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.
Andy GoldsworthyI knew the tree when it grew, and the tree is now gone. The farmers cut it up, and it's become firewood. And there's this tremendous sense of absence and shock and violence attendant to that collapsing tree.
Andy Goldsworthy