Sometimes I think that art needs to be about communication-- a lot of what we do in class is using art to accurately and powerfully get a message from our minds to the minds of our viewers.
A poetry teacher told me once that you (the poet) shouldn't make your reader "do all the work' of imagining what you're trying to say. You should really take them where you want them to be.
Andy Goldsworthy reminds me that you can create art that takes people's minds to a certain place (without telling them what that is) and trusting that they will find the truth you're trying to communicate.
When I see his work, I think about the cycles of life in the natural world, about the pathways that living things take between the solid features of the earth. I think of how all the elements combine to make up different plants, animals, and landscapes, and how we are all part of the same ecosystem. I think about birth, death, health and decay, high tides and low. I don't know if this is where he wants me to be, but I have a feeling it's close.
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