Arch Intimacy

摘要

The work of Andy Goldsworthy allows us to see the pastoral and the agrarian as mined landscapes, according to this essay by Matthew Jelacic. Goldsworthy's work is a lens through which to assess the impact of the economy and industry of herding on the environment. Like the necupenation of Emscher's industrial artefacts, it is also a vehicle of collective memory. Andy Goldsworthy constructed his Arch no less than 22 times along an ancient route once used for transporting sheep from open grazing lands in northern Dumfries and Galloway to slaughterhouses, markets and ports in southern Lancashire. Along these historic routes, or 'droves', were built a series of holding pens, or 'folds'. Goldsworthy's Arch was usually located in proximity to existing, dilapidated or imagined archeological folds. Construction was completed in a day and photographed and deconstructed the next, ready to be moved to the subsequent site.