Andy Goldsworthy Natural Sculptures With Ice, Stone & more | Rivers and Tides | Documentary Central

foreign heart for me is a form of nourishment I I need I need the land I need it I want to understand that state and energy that I have in me that I also feel in the pants and in the land energy and life that that is running through the flowing through the landscape you know it's that intangible thing that that is here and then gone growth time change and the idea of flow in nature [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] foreign [Applause] River both water you would think that time would be more compatible with the time time and time this daily up and down but somehow I think there's a lot to be learned about time by the river [Applause] [Applause] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] there are always obsessive thoughts that you cannot get rid of [Music] I don't like the sensation of traveling I feel dislocated uprooted and it takes me time to to re-establish Roots again and and when I arrive at a new place I have to Begin work almost immediately there's no period of research or resting I go straight to work hahaha [Music] The Tide is a quite extraordinary to have that liquid movement backwards and forwards and the cold this relationship to Stone and fluidity [Music] [Applause] I'm a stranger here I'm a stranger so I am so out of touch with it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I've I've shook hands with the place and begun [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] 's going well I feel warm but when there's a collapse look at this coldness right through me yeah I think the dark keeps you warm they've missed timed it today I got up early very you know four o'clock and I couldn't see anything the moon was out but they cast a shadow down here and then once you lose you heated this gun you know let's get it back and I have to work with my bare hands because that my my gloves stick and I don't have the sensitivity to to do it with with uh with gloves I lose feel of it I always like to touch you know you never Shake someone's hand with a glove on it is hard hard going and it is cold sometimes on the hands and I do get up very early and all that effort is ultimately going into trying to make something that it is effortless [Music] foreign [Music] I wish I'd reached this point about an hour ago before the sun had risen what it what is extraordinary that I didn't expect but I would have could only have dreamed of happening is that the sun coming from there shines completely on both sides of the rock so all the icicle is is illuminated against that that cliff and I I never had any idea that that would happen so the potential the potential here is fantastic you know it is it is water the river and the Sea made Solid and there's so many works that I've made that the thing the very thing that brings the work to life is a thing that will cause its death [Applause] [Music] my first view of the beach was a river and a pool that was being turned by the river so I'm trying to touch and understand that motion the flow and the and the the meeting of the river with the sea I mean that these two two two waters meet him foreign foreign [Applause] do you need any help when I was a boy we used to stand on those rocks and dive in the water was a little deeper yeah than I think it must have been do you have a name for this is this the this is a salmon hole yes so you caught seven from here yeah well many times many times slamming they were touching each other they were so thick but I made such a part strong connections to stuff you know we have a lot of salmon holes too I like that I like that feeling of the the [ __ ] the fish there underneath yes you know that that it has the sense of a Whirlpool you know and that's exactly what I wanted so I've fed off that motion into this piece so what's gonna happen what do you expect is going to happen when they're tied it's gonna float away it'll move into the uh into the pool yeah no it won't stay in there no absolutely not [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] taken off into another plane taken off into another world or another work feel at all like destruction [Music] that moment is really part of that cycle of turning [Applause] [Music] you feel as if you've touched the heart of the place foreign [Music] seeing something you never saw before that was always there but you were blind to [Music] you know there are moments when it is extraordinarily uh beautiful and a piece of work having nothing happens that is then those are moments that I just live for foreign well it's quarter to eight and I think the Tide's doing it around three and uh well you know there's not a lot of time and I think you should stop filming and collect Stones instead you know do something useful there's a stone it's not so not so bad but the uh we're having to walk quite a distance to get it so all the time we're losing losing time and so that makes for an interesting work quite like the tension and there's a risk you know and maybe only this half way up and the tides here and it looks like a marker to that time that's coming up behind me I began working on the beach where I began he was a great teacher that time in the relentlessness of it there's no getting away from the fact that she is going to be here I was at art college at Lancaster and all the students were in in the cubicles as they are and in that cramped space and every day I'd catch the train to to Markham where I was staying and you get off the train and you see this big expanse the space in such stark contrast to the the art kind and one day I went off and worked on on the beach what struck me was that sense of um energy when it was outside of the art college it was very secure in your art college as soon as you made something outside there was this almost breathlessness and an and an uncertainty total control can can be the death of a work oops the stone speaking I've never had one do this before and I think it possibly is either the sand let's unsettling and it's or the weakness of the Stone of even a combination of the two but I don't think this is going to I think I'll make this the widest point and just try to get some weight back in the middle too start securing it I know [Applause] foreign [Applause] too many unknowns foreign [Music] [ __ ] [Music] it's a very heavy Stone right here can you bring me a very heavy Stone a kind of lumpy squarish one maybe I shouldn't have put that one [Music] can you get one end yes again play on this ready okay [Music] foreign [Music] coming in I think it would be better to wait oh the moment when something collapses it is intensely disappointing and this is the fourth time it's fallen and each time I got to know the stone a little bit more it got higher each time so it grew in proportion to my understanding of the stone and that is really what one of the things that my art is trying to do is trying to understand the stone I obviously don't understand it well enough yet people make small piles of stone to Mark Pathways in the Hills mountains in in Scotland and I think all over the world so all the cons are related in some way and they have become markers to my Journeys and places that I feel an attachment towards [Music] and then it has a quality of this Guardian the the way that it stands and feels as if it is protecting something foreign [Music] I like the connection that the form has with the seed very full and ripe thank you [Music] to look at Stone and fine growth and is expressed in the seed within stone is a very powerful image for me [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] and the cold just disappeared and then was gone but it was still there a work that I'd only just finished making so my my contact with the stone was still very very strong so I was with it down there but I still couldn't see it foreign [Music] I haven't simply made the piece to be destroyed by the sea it is it they the the work has been given to the Sea as a gift and the sea has taken the work and made more of it than I could have ever hoped or for foreign that if I can see in in that ways of understanding those things that happen to us in life that changes our lives that causes upheavals and shock I can't explain that foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] perfect [Music] but that deeper rhythm of change I I can't see other than in my home I mean this is why my whole place is becoming more and more important to me foreign I've always enjoyed working with but it's a very hard it's a very tough plant to work with it's a very aggressive on your on your hands when you're pulling it it's like raises and and I always associate the material with bleeding hands and it's one of the few plants I use a knife on and it's a very toxic plant too and when it's pouring you shouldn't really inhale at that time [Applause] [Applause] and I think we misread the landscape when we think of it to be in pastoral and pretty there is a darker side to that foreign [Applause] and I really like that that idea that the contact between the Alpine cameras I like the idea that feeling that the contact between the plant and sorry uh the flame of the fire makes the energy of the fire visible well it's the same with this Bluff it's like a result of the exchange of energy that has taken place between the plants and the Earth and that through that process so is an exchange of heat that gives it this when it looks charred it looks painted but it's not that's just the root as I find it and I think at this time when spring is is beginning that it it doesn't begin on the surface it begins below you know so this idea of finding evidence of that heat within the ground is um is something about in a way is my way of understanding what's going on at the moment and even though these are stocks from last year's plants and will not grow again this year they are still connected to that root system underneath the ground and the and the idea of of what happened last year is being repeated this year and it's going to come through this foreign [Music] I am fascinated by those processes that are happening in nature over time connected to the Sun the light the tide growth foreign [Music] work is the change [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] don't forget to give them some green leaves Holly thank you [Music] [Music] Pete come on floppy floppy ears it's good and then there's the uh I've done the first one of the dinos to feature underneath there there's salted out checking for spelling and just the images are coming from Charlie's girlfriend I began taking photographs when I was a student at art college when I once began working outside and and I had to explain to my tutors what I was making and the way to do that was to to take photographs so it still is a little bit like that photography has become the way I talk about my sculpture and brancusi once said about sculpture why why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it it's the language through which I I talk and describe what I made this also become the way that I understand what I have done and when I worked all all day in the rain and I'm tired I get visually and physically numb to what I've made and I need that time between the making and the return of the images to to be able to see afresh what I've really done and I have in here everything good work and and bad work everything is put into here this is all right see you later then just over the tree if you want to all right the train okay okay [Music] what are you going to make where are you going to make at the tree aren't they who are you working for no but what what are you gonna make I work intuitively I have no idea I haven't worked there for a while so this wall is going to help you I think Wallace is there yeah so we'll see foreign [Applause] [Music] all my children have been born here most of my good friends are here and I make I make my best work here and I think those are those are indications of how strongly I feel for this place [Music] [Music] I've lived in places for four or five years I've moved on and that is not enough time it really isn't enough time to understand the changes that happen at the place come on you have to live on the same street the same Village for a long period of time and seeing children when they're waiting at the bus stop growing to adults and have children of Their Own there was an old lady in the village who since died she was a fighter door lady and she'd had a tough life [Music] and she used to walk up and down the street that I lived in and I said well you know think about it this way since I've been on this street my son well all my children were born there my eldest son was the first child to be born on that street for 21 years and she said well you see only births and I see all my deaths from her perspective she just knew all the people who had lived in those houses and who know who had died and I hope I never forget either those people who are being born and those people who have died [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] river is that line that I follow the river is has an unpredictability about it it really is unpredictable and that that that line running through yet at the same time having its own Cycles related to the to the to the weather and the Sea it's um sorry fair to us I find something that would join the year together it would be something like the river the river is a river of stone a river of animals a river of the wind the river of water a river of many things river is not dependent on water we're talking about the flow [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign and here's the other lamp on its own what's up now make sure it's most clear [Applause] check with her others okay and that was I'll move up very quick and painless if we just Retreat and now get back to the Lambs [Music] can you bring the London to me I think it's one safe here excuse me [Music] the Sheep is very brutal to any young growth and the way it rips and tears the the grass [Music] they are at times like a river of sheep the flow and movement in their own way [Music] the reason this landscape looks as it is with no trees is because of the sheep so the sheep have had this very deep impact on on the land and so I do feel this need to work with with the sheep and yet our perception of sheep is so different to the reality of the sheep you know we and that it makes it an incredibly difficult thing to work with because we perceive it as being a woolly animal and to get through that willliness to the essence of the Sheep very very hard because our sheep are incredibly powerful animals in their own way [Music] they have been responsible for social and political upheavals the Highland clearances when people were put off the land the landlords put sheep on the land and moved the people away foreign behind them and it's written in the place in the landscape there is an absence in the landscape because of the effects of sheep [Music] foreign [Music] okay [Music] people who lived worked and died here and I can feel their presence in the places that I work and I am the next layer upon those things that have happened already [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign needs me at all but I do need it to just go off into the woods and make a piece of work Roots me again and if I don't work for a period of time I feel I do feel rootless I don't I don't know myself um and it's and it's very hard if I've if I've not worked for say two three weeks and then I give a lecture and I'm talking about my work and it feels like I'm talking about somebody else I do need to be on my own the tongues I enjoy being by myself there are people's company I do enjoy and there probably is a social nature too and that I feed from that to some extent to be honest I I think I do I am I am trained by people that I follow the the subtleties that I am aware of like the fact the wind is just now got a little bit stronger and although I'm you know I look as calm as I did a few 30 seconds ago there's these little warning Bells inside going when I make her work I often take it to the very edge of its collapse and that's a very beautiful balance thank you oops oh dear well that was close I am so amazed at times that I am actually alive well it happened occasions well on occasion when someone very close to me died it was my uh my younger brother's wife very young and the the image of the image of somebody dying of Julia dying which is very burnt in your mind and the day after uh Julia's death I I worked at the tree it seemed the right place to go and made the work I work with a hole on the tree [Music] I've become to see it as as a kind of entrance the visual entrance into the earth into the tree into the stone that entrance there between which life both Ebbs and flows looking into a black hole I've often described as like looking over a cliff Edge as this sense of being drawn into the black as you're drawn into the depth the distance but the other side of that is out of that comes growth also [Music] [Music] this was my way of trying to understand that that um not just the death the not just the absence because the black is the absence it's the it's intangible but it's it's it's in the context of a tree that I know will come back to life and there's nothing more potent to me than a black hole that I've made and returning later and seeing a little finger of glow growth the blade of growth growing grounded that black that is such a potent image [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] you know [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] to make the wall because I used to Gap this Repair Broken Walls and a little bit um but he he kept taking my Stones off the wall and uh you know he was right to do that I've learned that I have to respect their work their life you know when I work with a wall it's not just the time they spend with me but they bring their lives to it they don't want me to touch the walls playing a being a Waller just like I don't want them to start playing it being artists that we both each of our roles in this and my role is to find the line of the wall I work the space foreign with the stone is what makes the wall the stones are laid on and on and on and the work makes itself to some extent and it's that fluidity of working that gives the sculpture a sense of movement and energy foreign [Music] [Music] King and I spent a lot of time walking around just getting to know the place I see these walls is now directly that are a link back to my home because these walls were probably made by people who came out from your possibly even Scotland who came out here as settlers made farms made walls so that was the first interest and I wanted to redraw the line remake the wall so that it talked about the place as it is now the walls here came out of that process of cutting down the trees and turning the forest into farmland [Music] but then farming is has shifted away from this landscape and trees found shelter in the wall and grew [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] that is best the wall is the line that is in sympathy with the place through which it travels and that sense of movement is very important to understanding the sculpture on a movement to the passage of people the movement of the wall the river of stone as it runs around the trees the river of growth that is the forest and it has made me aware of that flow around the world of veins that run around the world [Music] no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no ah [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] the reason why the stone is Red is because of its iron content and that's also the reason why our blood is red too [Applause] there is a special energy about about the red and this probably is relationship to blood probably something that I can't really explain entirely I think it's the color is an expression of life even though things died they're part of that flow still you know they become part of the river of red in Japan you'll see a a red maple tree against the Green Mountain there's incredible red and it's like it's like a wound it's like a wound in the mountain there's such an energy and violence about that color and I will all I am in a continuous pursuit of of the red and I I have this feeling that if as I approach it sauce the more I begin to understand the color you know it is there's many lessons to be learned by by that color and I think that when the realization is was today the color is also in me you know that then then it's it's this feeling of a both a color and an energy flowing through all things foreign thank you I must have worked here several times before realizing the red here you know it's not so obvious and just looking underneath Stones you find these small red soft iron stones there's something so dramatic so intense could be so at the same time so hidden so underneath the skin of the Earth and there's a real shock at seeing that color something very alien to the river in fact it is so rooted and about that place now here I am working with the stone grinding them down and I spend all this time several hours making a little pile of pigment that I will make into a ball and throw into the river and I'll be a splash and that's just an instant in that cycle of stone as it goes through its process of solidification of them becoming fluid again and then being solid they're made solid uh once again I I think it's a it's one of the it's a little memory in the life of a stone but very much in the spirit of that the in the nature of stone together we set so much by our idea of the stability of stone and when you find the stone itself is actually fluid and liquid that really undermines my sense of what is here to stay and what isn't [Applause] [Music] thank you wow [Music] thank you when I work with the building I try to use the the whole wall to touch on a landscape contained within and behind the building it's almost the memory of the building's origin contained in the walls and it's drying out that memory foreign [Music] from Scotland what I didn't want was this sort of anonymous process clay that came from some ceramic shop somewhere [Music] her Clay is dug raw from the ground and I've sift out some of the Stones it's dried and then it's crushed and mixed with human hair and mix with water reconstituted [Music] the hair is necessary to bind and I could use sheep Cow Horse but I do like that that feeling of people being bound up in there I came from the hairdressers in the village net where I live so my Village is in this work [Music] I discovered when I made the first clay walls that the architectural geology of the the building where beams were affected the drying rate and formed cracks and patterns within the cracking so what lies below the surface affects the surface foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] of course it feels alive yeah if anything is an expression of the Stone alive almost back to its origin as the in the volcano when the storm was alive I mean it's always alive but that visible evidence of movement and and the eruption of the Stone there's that feeling of energy within it and that's life uh [Music] mom [Music] ENT I cannot then explain beyond that but I know that there is is more than just a simple uh collapsing and an arrival of material things and I I know I can just about get them out but there's a world beyond what words can Define for me words are do their job but what I'm doing here says a lot more [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you thank you [Music] foreign foreign

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Published: Sun Sep 11 2022