The Natural Approach To Art: Andy Goldsworthy

I found a connection to Andy Goldsworthy because he finds the natural art in nature and emphasizes it. One of the scenes was something I noticed only a couple of weeks ago as I watched the foam of soap make swirl patterns in the water and I noticed how it was constantly changing. In this movie, Andy did the same thing by taking the color of a red rock and placing it in a rippled creek to create those same patterns. He mad the quote that "Losing time can make for interesting work", and in this sense all his work takes on a life much like our own existence. The colors in that rippled creek eventually delude and become the water. He says the "The thing that brings work to life is the same thing that brings it's death." For this he has no connection to his piece as far as losing it. To him the destruction is inevitable when nature is involved and in ways becomes part of the work its self. A lot of his work seems to rely on the effects of water in which influences him. It's almost as though in his construction he is racing the tides. If he should finish before nature itself destroys it for that moment his finished work captures the essence of the surroundings. As it slowly falls a part one who should walk past just might take it as something beautiful being destroyed. In this film the destruction slowly happening and set to soft violins actually made it beautiful and gave it the meaning Andy Goldsworthy intended. "Work is given to the sea as a gift and the sea took it and did more to it than I could've". His work with the tides remind me of a contemporary artist at the Beamis who made a film soley based on violinist trying to keep a tune consistent on a boat going down a rapid stream. The consistency, never stayed.