“A building no matter how beautiful is a dead space compared to the outside”.
Andy Goldsworthy
My immediate response to the site specific brief was to explore potential outdoor spaces around the city. I find it very predictable that artists usually respond to such briefs by looking at derelict or run down areas addressing memory, loss and repair. However i favor making works based around the people who inhabit spaces and the existing collaboration between the man made and the natural environment.
April Suzanne.
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I also found this quote by Goldsworthy:
ReplyDelete'My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made.'
Taking inspiration from this, I want to look at the different buildings around Leeds starting from the town centre working my way up to the park, photograph them their structure, find out what was there before, what they are made of etc etc..
Brainy Media, Andy Goldsworthy Quotes, Brainy Quote, 2010, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/andy_goldsworthy.html, 28/04/2010
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