Andy Goldsworthy is a British installation artist who produces ‘environmentally motivated’ artworks, which are intended to decompose. He uses materials form the environment for example stone, stick, ice and snow, which he collects over a certain period of time. His work explores issues of growth, decay and seasonal cycles. “Although I cannot predict what will happen, any changes will become part of the work. When utterly collapsed and evident only as a line of rubble, it will remain complete and finished." His goal is to understand nature by interacting with it as intimately as possible. Some of his most common works are Cairns. Two of these Cairns were created to represent day becoming night, and night becoming day. Mid-morning of a day during October 1991, Goldsworthy started stacking stones in an egg-shaped cairn six feet tall, to indicate day becoming night. He continued this throughout the day until dusk. The next day, Goldsworthy built another cairn nearby, to signify night becoming day. He began at midnight and worked throughout the night until daybreak. During the process he photographs documents his work, and it is through this documentation that the audience is able to view his work.
The Neuberger Cairn (2001)
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