Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy stunningly brings sculptural elements to nature photography. He has created a sort of art all his own that is more than note worthy. His sculptures are created entirely by manipulating found elements within nature. In his words "Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within." When a photographer captures a landscape he or she is capturing all the natural elements of a location that are occurring during a specific moment in time. If you take a mountain scape shot at two different seasons of the year, the result would be two dramatically different scenes, as would Andy's sculpures. His sculptures are built using natural elements and left to decay as seasons or weather changes. So in a sence his works are snap shots of whats occuring naturally. Like I said above, his work is more than note worthy, it's Goldsworthy. Ha ha