SOMETHING WORTH SHARING

So today we watched a video on a British artist named Andy Goldsworthy. He works with nothing but pure, found nature and spends hours on both permanent and temporary sculptures. His goal in making his art works is to understand the nature he works with more and more as he works with and asses it. His style can best be summed up when he says, "I enjoy the freedom of just using my hands and "found" tools--a sharp stone, the quill of a feather, thorns. I take the opportunities each day offers: if it is snowing, I work with snow, at leaf-fall it will be with leaves; a blown-over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches. I stop at a place or pick up a material because I feel that there is something to be discovered. Here is where I can learn. " 


His works are captivating and his attitude and way of thinking is inspiring.
(pictures borrowed from www.morning-earth.org) 

rowan leaves

broken/scratched pebbles

ice spiral (we watched him make one in the video...he connects broken icicles with wet snow!)