Perfectly Mobile, Perfectly Still

David Craig

  • Time by Andy Goldsworthy
    Thames and Hudson, 203 pp, £35.00, August 2000, ISBN 0 500 51026 1

Sculpture need not be a bronze statue of a town councillor or a marble figure of a goddess, respectfully plinthed in gallery or plaza; or a curvaceous wooden form strung like a harp which we gaze at in dumbfounded silence. These days, it may well be a drystone wall winding between trees before burying its end in a lake, like the great Norse serpent for ever drinking the world’s waters dry. Or a cairn on a Highland headland with a fire flaming inside it. Or a longboat made of stakes and stones and turf, grounded in the undergrowth of a forest.

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Vol. 22 No. 24 · 14 December 2000 » David Craig » Perfectly Mobile, Perfectly Still (print version)
Pages 34-35 | 3131 words