#andy goldsworthy

[milksockets]

'six untitled temporary installations of varying sizes, materials, and shapes, lasting from a few minutes to several months' by andy goldsworthy, 1991-2 in oliver ranch - john simon (2015)

[autoneurotic]

wild 2 me i’ve never painted an andy goldsworthy photo until now

[fragodot]

Andy Goldsworthy, River stones scratched white, 1983

[fragodot]

Andy Goldsworthy, Derwent Water, Cumbria, 1988

[gregorygalloway]

Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956)

[a-gay-witch]

favorite word?

ephemeral :)

good mouth feel & nice meaning (meaning something temporary or fleeting)

art teacher taught it to my class when we were learning about the works of Andy Goldsworthy ! you might recognise him from his works with leaves where he organises them in a gradient, making it look like the things (often trees) they surround look like they're glowing. I remember pictures of them being popular on here at some point

here's some of his cool stuff:

[idiosyncraticrum]

Andy Goldsworthy

[bremser]

Andy Goldsworthy, Red Flags at Fort Mason San Francisco, 2026

"Marking the West Coast debut of Goldsworthy’s monumental installation Red Flags (2020), the exhibition features fifty 5 x 8-foot flags, each stained red with earth collected from one of the fifty US states. Originally hung in New York’s Rockefeller Center, the flags’ presentation at Fort Mason coincides with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence." The flag in the first photo at the top of the stairs is dyed from dirt from all 50 states.

I'm not sure if this vast empty space dilutes the visual impact of the flags (or is a perfect metaphor), but it seems radically different from this install at Royal Scottish Academy or the more traditional flag hang at Rockefeller Center. The exhibit also has a selection of photographs of Goldsworthy casting the crushed red stone (that was used to dye the flags) in various settings and a short film. There's a photograph of him tossing the red dirt into San Francisco bay in front of Alcatraz that's an eerily similar location to last week's boat tragedy. On through July 30.