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Andy GOLDSWORTHY,
STARTED CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN, 1987
Photograph, 48 x 39.5 cm

Establishing the theme of plants as marks of memory in the landscape, Andy Goldsworthy’s STARTED CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN offers the viewer a physical manifestation of the beginning of a journey. As with nearly all of his art, Goldsworthy utilises the medium of his natural surroundings, captured through photography, to create his work. Here rings of upturned ferns flash their light undersides in a leafy ripple outwards from a central hole. The concentric pattern and the contrast achieved give the sense of a target, or perhaps a kind of portal you may slip through if you stray too close.
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