Rivers and Tides :Andy Goldsworthy Working with Times

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Welcome to my blog. This blog is about the Golden Gate award winning  documentary " Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Times" . The documentary was directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer. So here I am looking for frame study on this documentary. And also discussed about the transient nature of art and as well as life. How beautifully Andy Goldsworthy made a gorgeous piece of art with all his anxiety. How beautifully Andy Goldsworthy made a gorgeous piece of art with all his anxiety.  Here also we can see how he was dedicated to his art and his work. He was making something from nothing without damaging nature.

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          So let's know something more about Andy Goldsworthy…….

   

               Andy Goldsworthy  (born 26 July 1956) is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland.

The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly coloured flowers, icicles, leaves, mud, pinecones, snow, stone, twigs, and thorns. He has been quoted as saying, "I think it's incredibly brave to be working with flowers and leaves and petals. But I have to: I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole." Goldsworthy is generally considered the founder of modern rock balancing. For his ephemeral works, Goldsworthy often uses only his bare hands, teeth, and found tools to prepare and arrange the materials; however, for his permanent sculptures like "Roof", "Stone River" and "Three Cairns", "Moonlit Path" (Petworth, West Sussex, 2002) and "Chalk Stones" in the South Downs, near West Dean, West Sussex he has also employed the use of machine tool.

         Andy Goldsworthy is the subject of a 2001 documentary feature film called Rivers and Tides, directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer. In 2018, Riedelsheimer released a second documentary on Goldsworthy, Leaning Into the Wind.

As we know that famous sentence :  the Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholders.   If we realize what is in the documentary , it is not only there but that is also in our atmosphere also. But as  we said that beauty lies in the eyes of beholders, so their beauty in all the aspects of nature but how we see and how we relate to our lives that is the beauty. So that thing was perfectly done by Andy Goldsworthy. The beauty of nature is always their but when we realize then this is existing in our eyes.

        Each and every mankind craves for his or her praises. Especially during when we are doing something. Here in the documentary we can see that artist make "something from nothing" usually something that is eye-catching using the elements of nature like water, tides, sunshine, wind, trees, leafs, stones, natural color, iron oxide chalk, raw sheep’s wool, flower blossoms, leaves and grass, feathers, random sticks and stones, broken rocks, pieces of icicle, green iris blades and red berries, thorns, bracken, or handfuls of snow etc contributing to the process. He was making the piece of art that is existing for a few minutes or second. Here we can understand the concept of transient nature of art and lives.

      As Andy Goldsworthy mentioned that Art for me is the form of nourishment.  And also he said " I don't think land needs me at all But I do need it".  He included that if he doesn't work then he feels less.

 

It doesn't feel at all like...destruction. That moment is really part

of that cycle of turning. You feel as if you've touched the heart of the place. That's a way of understanding for me...

Seeing something you never saw before that was always there but you were blind to. There are moments when it is extraordinarily beautiful in a piece of work. I mean, though it happens, that is...Then those are moments that I just live for.

That is the lines taken  from the transcript of the documentary. In which we find his feelings for his art. When the particular piece of art is going to destroy at that time he doesn't feel like destruction. He called it a cycle turning, and also you touched the hearts of the place.

For him no matter whether people saw this art or not , he just wanted to enjoy the moment.  He doesn't want praise from others. So we can say that the end results are not important but the process to gain something that is important. 

          At one point When he was making art from stone at the  sea shore And it was not going well with times because at some point of time Tide came near and near. Four times the stone collapsed but he continued his work with the same patience. He was said that 

"and each time I got to know the stone  a little bit more. I got higher each time. So it grows in proportion to my understanding of the stone. And that is really what one of the things that my art is trying to do."

       He mentioned that  he knows that the sea destroyed the piece. But he said that is the gift for the sea. He also never hoped for it. He also connects life' s different situations with that.  The same type of causes upheaval and the shock in life.

References :

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Goldsworthy

https://subslikescript.com/movie/Rivers_and_Tides_Andy_Goldsworthy_Working_with_Time-307385