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September 14, 2006
andy goldsworthy
Noguchi Museum Blog...
Noguchi Museum didn't catch my attention so much. granted, I was only there for half an hour, and there were all the themes that we talked about in class such as the defining of spaces by one continuous object, ...
But what really reached me was this Andy Goldsworthy book I picked up at the gifts store. I picked up "Time". Naturally, it exposed his work about Time. Frost shadows and rain shadows happen if he stands still for the entirety of a duration of time while the environment he's in starts and ends a process, and the same sort of thing can be said about his sculptures that cave in to the tide.
But something that really hit me most was that this work was really about his hands, his experience with his hands on the land. When I scanned through the book, the pieces hit me for their simplicity, usually a juxtaposition of colors, a patterning of objects, or other simple methodical concepts framed in a particular environment.
But when you read his notes, you realize just how long each piece took, and how he was often forced to compromise his work to a setting or rising sun, etc. A pattern of branches around a tree trunk might take the man from morning to night to gather and arrange the branches and determine how to layer them together.
That knowledge really does transform the piece. It's like seeing a flower and noticing its colors, or seeing a flower and realizing the entire history of processes from its birth to its bloom.
And I guess that's what most of andy goldsworthy's work in this collection book Time is about, it's about framing processes before the current time in an arrangement of objects.
Posted by Kunal Gupta at September 14, 2006 12:34 PM