The photography is not the aim of the work; the articulation of the work through photography is another way of understanding what's going on and what's happening outside.
Andy GoldsworthyWhen I make a work, I often take it to the very edge of its collapse, and that's a very beautiful balance.
Andy GoldsworthyIf I'm going to understand the land, I have to understand the wind, the snow, the rain, the leaves, the ice, and changes in temperature. It just reflects a reality for me.
Andy GoldsworthyPhotography is a way of putting distance between myself and the work which sometimes helps me to see more clearly what it is that I have made.
Andy GoldsworthyWhen it does get below freezing and there is - it's cold enough for ice to form, then that changes the whole landscape, and it makes the landscape a different landscape to the one that I worked with previously. And I want to understand that. But the big tension of the ice works is that they're often made when it's cold enough to freeze one piece of ice to another.
Andy Goldsworthy