sculpture

Last night, the bf shared with me a beautiful documentary about artist Andy Goldsworthy called Rivers and Tides. It was a slow peaceful film about a man who creates (mostly) temporary art in natural surroundings. It may be old news to some but I was floored. The man is a damn genius. His photographs and this film are the only ways he can preserve the painstaking efforts involved in creating these stunning pieces, with no tools others than what nature provides. Rainbows of leaves in still water, spiderwebs of stalks suspended in air, coiled shells of rolled up leaves places in the nook of a tree branch, swirls of icicles passing through rock, bloody waterfalls of ground iron rich stone, green snakes of leaves held together with thorns winding down a river… He opens up in the film about his thought process and emotional connections to what he does. Here are some pictures of his work, which really don’t do any of it justice.