A visually arresting if somewhat bland documentary about Andy Goldsworthy a landscape artist. Goldsworthy creates his art through raw materials such as stone, plants, sticks and ice. The name of the documentary links to the basis behind many of Goldsworthy's structures which have spirals and swirls like that of a river. Whilst clearly a patient, impassioned man at his work, Goldsworthy by admission is not articulate at putting across in words what or why he creates as he does and this ultimately makes the documentary quite boring. It does however have an orgy of colour and images of which his ice structure in the shape of a fir cone is worthy of special mention. Goldsworthy's structures seem to indicate a compulsion for space with the use of black holes. There also seemed to be something disturbing about his homage to his younger brother's dead wife i.e. cutting what could only be described as a vagina into the bark of a tree.
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