Rivers & Tides

Last friday my english teacher (who also has a blog: Middlemiss sez), showed us this video "Rivers and Tides". This is about an abstract artist, who creates natural ideas, Andy Goldsworthy sees around himself.
I have been asked to share my opion on his movie so if you would like to view it please go to http://www.amazon.com/Andy-Goldsworthys-Rivers-Tides-Goldsworthy/dp/B0002JL9N6

Q&A

1.) Respond emotionally, intellectually and honestly to 5 projects that Goldsworthy presents in the film "Rivers and Tides".

So Goldsworthy creates all of these swirls or snake designs, that ribbon up, across, and along the earth.

He makes it so that it looks natural but you can tell that some man made hand had to come along an change it. Goldsworthy always uses natural products and creates these abstract forms to show snow, or water paterns; anything natural. He uses ice to cascade up a sloped rock, to make it seem like its going in and out of the rock, like a shoelace. He learns as he creates, by working with ice, an snow an water, to combine the three so the ice can stick to eachother and to the rock. Goldsworthy also uses red rocks to grind into a sort of dye to throw in the water and watch it go, the way it swirls an cascades into and around the rocks an algea. Another example for, natural products is taking sheeps wool, and water, and creating a sort of a fuzzy rock, and also using it on the top of a rockwall creating sort of a fake background making the white wool stand out on the rough hard rugged landscape. Its hard to understand what his purposes are but his design is truely amazing.

2.) Also discuss why you think Goldsworth is consumed with particular motifs (such as: the cone shape, the hole in nature, the ribon of flowers/ice/leaves/stones...)

Most of his work consits of creating a natural design yet unnatural to the place it is in. He used leaves and sticks to pin together and float down a river. Yes, leaves naturally fall of trees an into rivers and streams but it is Unnatural to see them strung together as a design. Goldsworthy motifs think are created to show how designs can be made out of simple things, yet they can be very complex and long. He might want to portray the differences even simple materials can have.

3.) Explain these quotes:
 "It;s the dialogue with the stone that makes the wall."
"The real work is in the change."

These 'changes' in art can be described as natural or man made. They could have been made by a natural cause such as snow melting away, to create something new, or man made meaning that occationally the artist or creator adds or subtracts something small or large.]

The stone that makes the wall tells a 'natural' story how not everything such as a wall is just a wall. Its stone, and plaster, and paint, and anything else that can be on or in a wall. Things are'nt always as they seem and these creations may have you thinking upon them for a while.