‘The boy or girl,’ Wordsworth famously remarked, ‘is father to the person.’ Escalating up in West Yorkshire, the land was generally near to Andy Goldsworthy’s coronary heart. At 13, he began to commit his free of charge time doing the job as a farm labourer, developing an awareness of the seasons and what the poet T. S. Eliot recognized as the cycle of ‘birth, copulation and death’. He has likened the repetition of farm perform to the bodily nature of making sculpture. During his time as an artwork student at what is now the College of Central Lancashire, he established ephemeral performs of rock and stone at close by Morecambe…