Andy Goldsworthy: natural connections

British artist Andy Goldsworthy creates site-specific installations in the natural world, using only available materials like ice, leaves, flowers, and stones. The only connective material and adhesives he uses are part of the physical properties inherent in the materials themselves: thorns, frozen ice, water, spit, gravity, etc.

Poppy petals
Early morning, before breeze strengthened
Each petal licked underneath and pressed to another
To make a line about seven feet long
Haarlemmerhout, Holland 27 August 1984, 1984
Four cibachrome photographs (displayed in two artist-constructed frames)
149 x 64 cm and 60.2 x 51 cm

An excellent documentary, “Rivers and Tides,” can be found at the CCA library.