✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

The Landscape Artist Andy Goldsworthy Contemplates His Own Natural Decay | The New Yorker

newyorker.com · 6,989 words · saved by 1 readers

In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay.

Save this story Save this story The British artist Andy Goldsworthy moved to Penpont, a village in southwest Scotland, in 1986, when he was thirty. The area’s initial appeal was twofold. Property was cheap, which meant that Goldsworthy and his wife at the time, Judith Gregson, could acquire an unrenovated stone building that had likely once stored grain. This structure could serve as a workspace and, for a while, as a rough-and-ready home. Of equal importance to Goldsworthy was the existence in Scotland of a customary right to roam. He could move freely through the surrounding farmland, traver

Explore this link on the map →

related reading