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  • Artist Known for Ephemera Creates Slate Landscape by Susan Stone

    03/28/2005 6:44:06 AM PST · by Republicanprofessor · 9 replies · 514+ views
    National Public Radio ^ | 3/28/05 | Susan Stone
    Artist Andy Goldsworthy is best known for working alone in nature, making fragile, temporary sculptures from leaves, rocks, even ice. The sculptor works quietly for hours in each place, a process captured in the 2001 documentary Rivers and Tides. Photographs of Goldsworthy's work hang in galleries and museums around the world. His latest project is a permanent piece in the center of Washington, D.C. It's the first new work commissioned by the National Gallery of Art in 26 years. Goldsworthy mastered optics and engineering to create a series of domes constructed of slabs of slate designed to hold together permanently...