Ephemeral Works: 2004-2014, Andy Goldsworthy, 2015
This very large and very heavy book is quite spectacular. A photographic journey through ten years of Goldsworthy’s ephemeral works. Made from ice, snow, leaves, sand, branches, kelp, seaweed, dust, ashes, and even the contents of a manure pile, the artist constructs and then photographs beautiful shapes, outlines, contours, structures, and shadows of objects that had been there. This is a book to sit quietly with on a rainy day, leisurely leafing through page after page of breath-taking beauty. One is inspired to think about how one can translate Goldsworthy’s ideas into one’s own environment. I can’t wait to lie down on the bridge over the brook in our backyard in Vermont and create my own rain shadow!!!!