Andy Goldsworthy : “Touching North” 1989
Four circular portals of snow let light, wind, & weather pass through them, like rings for the Earth to breathe through. Created by American land artist Andy Goldsworthy, “Touching North” marked a response to his voyage made to the North Pole in 1989. Ephemeral by nature, these glistening, icy sculptures spoke a poetic language with the sky — giving new articulation to the natural shifting of color as sunrise falls to sunset, dusk, & twilight.
Andy wrote — “It (the North Pole) belongs to no one, it is the Earth’s common, an ever-changing landscape in which whatever I make will soon disappear.”
Words by Luke Simon Mystic — Design by Jess Parsons
