Andy Goldsworthy, a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist once said: I find some of my new works disturbing, just as I find nature as a whole disturbing. The landscape is often perceived as pastoral, pretty, beautiful – something to be enjoyed as a backdrop to your weekend before going back to the nitty-gritty of urban life. But anybody who works the land knows it’s not like that. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn’t walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying. Quoted from Luke Storms of Parabola magazine.  The Winter 2010/2011 issue of Parabola is on newsstands now.  It’s a beautiful magazine. [Painting: Georgia O’Keefe, New York with Moon, 1925]

Andy Goldsworthy, a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist once said:

I find some of my new works disturbing, just as I find nature as a whole disturbing. The landscape is often perceived as pastoral, pretty, beautiful – something to be enjoyed as a backdrop to your weekend before going back to the nitty-gritty of urban life. But anybody who works the land knows it’s not like that. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn’t walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

Quoted from Luke Storms of Parabola magazine.  The Winter 2010/2011 issue of Parabola is on newsstands now.  It’s a beautiful magazine.

[Painting: Georgia O’Keefe, New York with Moon, 1925]

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