Reflective blog on Andy Goldsworthy's "Rivers and Tides"

"River and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy working with Time" is a 2001 documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about the British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who creates intricate and ephemeral sculputers from natural materials such as rocks, leaves, flowers and icicles.

This spiritual literate documentary also received the Golden Gate Award Grand Prize for Best Documentary at the 2003 San Francisco International Film Festival.

It is a wonderful documentary about the nature and art. In this documentary, he defines every art with philosophical point of view. As he says that, "Art for me is a form of nourishment".In this documentary he is working with time and also uses the natural environment to explore histories. He wanders on river banks and collects the natural materials and creates something beautiful out of them.But everything which is created, soon it will be destroyed by nature. Basically it speaks about the natural concept of birth and death.

He begins to work on an icicle sculpture and after many efforts and hard work he is able to give a tide shape to the ice. But it seems temporary, it will be melted with the passage of time. In the same way stone house breaks down in the river.

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Here we can see that how he represents the processes of life and death through nature.

The very thing that brought it to life, will bring about death”

It represents that everything in life is temporary and everything will be changed or destroyed as the time passes.

It also speaks about the spiral shape of nature. In the natural world everything is in spiral or circular shape. There is no triangular shape.

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