15 mei 2014

Andy Goldsworthy #2




Andy Goldsworthy working on location, Alderney.

"The Alderney Stones project unveiled by the environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy on the British island of Alderney is an art piece about materials, space and perhaps most intriguingly, time. Eleven massive balls of local clay strung throughout the island are infused with found materials, and as the stones disintegrates the materials are reintroduced back into environment in subtle ways.
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The project took several years to create. Goldsworthy had chosen his site specific work in Alderney for the island’s mixture of differing environments and the quality of the soil. The stones are placed in unexpected places and left to the whim of the site.

They started as local clay soil trucked to a makeshift studio where a team worked at testing and building the massive clay spheres. Materials were located throughout the island which were incorporated into each stone- from blackberries and barley to discarded gloves, bricks and metal objects. The five-foot diameter balls were then allowed to dry for a year before being moved. Each stone is placed in a site specific location where it will dissolve and eventually reveal its contents.
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