We were trudging along a green lane near Casterton in Cumbria. To be fair, the rock was actually a drove stone, though I wasn't quite sure what a drove stone was. And it wasn't in a field. It was in a sheepfold that was in a field. But I didn't pursue the point as the rain was battering down around us. You don't get this weather in an indoor art gallery, except perhaps at Tate Modern.
To the British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, who recently created a piece for the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a rock is more than a rock and a sheepfold is more than just a roofless house of four stone walls where sheep can find shelter. "A stone is a living witness to the place in which it sits," he says.
Goldsworthy started work on his Sheepfolds in 1996 as a Millennium Project, and in producing 100 Sheepfolds across Cumbria by the year 2000, he aimed to create the largest outdoor art project in the world. Eight years on there are over 200 of them, and he's still going. He finds sheepfolds that have been crumbling away, no longer much used, restores them, and also places a sculpture of some kind into most of them.
We were trudging along a green lane near Casterton in Cumbria. To be fair, the rock was actually a drove stone, though I wasn't quite sure what a drove stone was. And it wasn't in a field. It was in a sheepfold that was in a field. But I didn't pursue the point as the rain was battering down around us. You don't get this weather in an indoor art gallery, except perhaps at Tate Modern.To the British sculptor Andy Goldsworthy, who recently created a piece for the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, a rock is more than a rock and a sheepfold is more than just a roofless house of four stone walls where sheep can find shelter. "A stone is a living witness to the place in which it sits," he says.Goldsworthy started work on his Sheepfolds in 1996 as a Millennium Project, and in producing 100 Sheepfolds across Cumbria by the year 2000, he aimed to create the largest outdoor art project in the world. Eight years on there are over 200 of them, and he's still going. He finds sheepfolds that have been crumbling away, no longer much used, restores them, and also places a sculpture of some kind into most of them.
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