Working In Time

Rivers and Tides is a documentary about a man who submerges himself in the environment to tinker and build art from parts of nature. Andy Goldsworthy is a British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist that builds site-specific sculpture and land art situated in natural and urban settings. He lives and works in Scotland, but travels to various places for lectures and commissioned art. The materials used in Andy Goldsworthy's art often include brightly colored flowers, ice, leaves, mud, moss, snow, stone, sheep’s wool, twigs, and thorns. He tries to use nature as a whole and not edit the materials with man-made items. His art includes spiraled constructions from broken stones, leaves attached to float in the river, and oculi from sticks. He finds a way to arrange twigs as webs. He makes a spiral of rocks that fans out from a small base and then closes in again, a weight on top holding it together to finish as a stone egg.

As we watch him work, he enters a whole other world where he figures out how things are fitting together and how long it will last. He pushes limits until he fe...