Rivers & Tides

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Exclusively using the raw materials provided by nature: water, ice, flower blossoms, stones, twigs, icicles, leaves, even snowflakes, and often created in their indigenous places, Goldsworthy's pieces transform rigid elements into fluid ones and vice versa, reworking pliant substances into dense, solid forms.  In others, he extracts one essential element, as in an ode to pure color created by meticulously pounding into powder chips of rock containing veins of iron. Re-introducing the powder into a clear rippling stream results in an astonishing sculpture-in-motion, not coincidentally, the deep red color of blood.  From a beach strewn with an unyielding scatter of stones, comes a transformation into a liquid river of granite.</div> <bR> <div> Goldsworthy's endless fascination with the enduring forms and forces of nature drives his creativity. He describes his need for the land as being essential to his very existence.  He strives in his works to find the connection and balance of sculpture and nature.  His has a Zen like approach, seeking to convey that there are no boundaries between natural elements and the process of re-arranging them, if none are artificially imposed. </div> <bR> <div> The accompanying narrative effort to describe the purpose and intent of his work is secondary to the stunning visual artistry captured by the camera of director Thomas Riedelsheimer as he follows Goldsworthy to a dizzying variety of places.  The pieces are dazzling, delightful, intriguing, and as different, one from the other, as is each falling snowflake or wave at the moment it meets the shore. By their fleeting nature, much of his work is destined to change and begin to dissolve from the moment of its completion.  After hours of pre-dawn work collecting, snapping, and nibbling at a bounty of icicles, he fashions the straight, rigid sticks of ice into a sparkling, spherical illusion.  The rising sun immediately begins the gentle but inevitable task that will once again liquefy it.</div> <bR> <div> The universal delight of every child in building a castle out of sand or sorting a pile of pebbles into colors and shapes that lies at the core of this wonderful film is rewarded with a profusion of images displaying an astonishing array of patterns, colors, shapes and movement.  In a charming self-allusion to the artist, one repeated theme is a configuration of various materials into a nest-like arrangement with an opening at its center resembling the iris of a camera, or an eye. Goldsworthy carefully photographs and catalogs all his works and for many of them, these are the only remaining record.  Some, like the visually endless 2,278 foot long serpentine stone wall traversing many acres at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York, are commissioned works and of a much more permanent nature. Stringing together brightly colored leaves, carefully chosen and placed to form a seemingly limitless chain, or into an eye-popping design, these remarkable works, and the process of creating them comes alive in this acutely visual film.  Unobtrusively and beautifully photographed by director Riedelsheimer.</div> <bR> <div> The soft spoken and intensely focused Goldsworthy, exudes a child-man enthusiasm combined with the skill of a gifted and accomplished artist.  The home he shares with his wife and children is infused with the same delight in exploring and experimenting with simple, yet intricate, concepts.  A little elfish, Goldsworthy seems nevertheless a salt of the earth kind of guy.  As he says, words do their job, but what he does says so much more.</div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="592" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 20 WIDTH="588"><div> Shelley Cameron <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFCC66" FACE="Symbol" >Ó</FONT> 2003</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 19 WIDTH="588"><div> <A HREF="mailto:shlcameron@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:shlcameron@aol.com"><U><U>Shelley@reelmoviecritic.com</U></U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>