Andy Goldsworthy

British artist Andy Goldsworthy has a new installation in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Between "Roof" and the FIT exhibit, DC is looking like the place to be this summer.

Goldsworthy is renowned for taking pieces of nature and working with their natural form to allign them in unusual and constructed patterns. His works are mesmerizingly beautiful - and the amount of time and headache that they must take (given the ephemeral and tempermental nature of weather) always make my head hurt.

Here is the artist's statement and some of my favorite pieces of his:

Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.