Photography in Context: Andy Goldsworthy. Web.

http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/TEST/index.html (04/02/2012, at 01.00pm)

Andy Goldsworthy is a British installation artist. He works with nature using natural materials like stones, leaves, twigs, flowers, snow and ice... He collaborates with nature, some of his creations don't last long so while he is working he writes a notebook, and when his work is completed he takes photographs of his creations. His work we can call "conversation with nature", his sculpture reminds me of geometry, place, time, seasons, history and space. Mathematical understanding of space and time but in artistic visions.

From beginning snow was a vital material for his creations. Goldsworthy is fascinated by snow, he explain that in his own words,

"... it is in the nature of snow to contradict. It turns the dark earth white – it can fall softly, or with a vigour that hurts. It is at the same time tough, gentle, dangerous, delicate, powerful, and hard.” (on line)

I understand his attraction to this sculptural material, because as a child I loved to build from snow and watch my formations melt down and been given back to the earth.
His snow creations like melting of dirty and gritty snowball from New York City streets, has more hidden context, I read to it as a part of the damage which big city make to our word. On the other hand idea of Shadow Snow Fold, in which the artist performs in real time with snow falling gently on a massive stone at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in England, makes me think about all those pure places.
http://www.decordova.org/art/exhibition/andy-goldsworthy-snow (04/02/2012,at 11.20)
Andy's observations of snow are still continued, his next idea is to build a Snow House, according to the artist,

“the work is not an object, but a container—a forum for change, memory, replenishment, season—in which the construction and care of the object, along with its interaction with people, are integral to the work.” (on line)

http://www.decordova.org/snow-house (04/02/2012, at 11.30)
When he works on his visions he uses materials in their place of origin, because he wants nature to respond, he wants to feel the space and surroundings with in the subject. In his work Herd of Arches he uses stone from the quarry which was used in eighteen and nineteenth century buildings in Glasgow.

http://www.sculpture.org.uk/andygoldsworthy/sculpture/herd-of-arches/ (04/02/2012, at 12.00pm)

I think that his philosophy is to shape and understand nature, to see changes through the years even if his creations are just temporary like leaves polished, made in the shadow of the tree from which they fell, pinned to the ground with thorns or slits cut into frozen snow in stormy strong wind, he knows that by composing something in that space, enables his touch to stay in the heart of the nature.

"I cannot explain the importance to me of being part of the place, its seasons and changes. Fourteen years ago I made a line of stones in Morecambe Bay. It is still there, buried under the sand, unseen. All my work still exists in some form." (on line)

http://www.ucblueash.edu/artcomm/web/w2005_2006/maria_Goldsworthy/philosophy.html (04/02/1012, at12.30pm)