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Ideas must be put to the test. That's why we make things, otherwise they would be no more than ideas. There is often a huge difference between an idea and its realisation. I've had what I thought were great ideas that just didn't work.

— Andy Goldsworthy

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My work comes first, reasons for it follow.

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private.

Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

My sculpture can last for days or a few seconds — what is important to me is the experience of making. I leave all my work outside and often return to watch it decay.

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