Goldsworthy makes use of nature's seasonal or meteorological changes based on his geographical location. Like all organic matter they are consumed by time and erosion. The vibrant colors found in nature are unstable. The artist has described color as a kind of energy. One example of this would be Goldsworthy's ephemeral performance sculptures, when sand, water or earth is tossed into the air, where the resultant photograph becomes the sole record of the work's brief apparition. By necessity, then, the majority of the sculptures must be completed and documented in one day as light and temperature would affect their very materiality, their existence. The materials of Goldsworthy's work are in turn affected by change he employs such transitory elements as leaves, wood, rock, ice, snow, peat and sand. He exploits its vital impermanence: changes in season, weather and terrain. Goldsworthy is interested in the 'movement, light, growth and decay' of nature. To this extent his work is at once both fleeting and permanent in that it alters the organization of the natural landscape. However, a sense of place does in fact play a large role in the making of Goldsworthy's sculpture, such that each site is transformed, however provisionally, with each intervention. He has stated that his work could easily be realized within the environs of his home in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, although he has traveled extensively in Britain, Europe, America, Japan and Australia. Although Goldsworthy in his more recent, more monumental work, has used assistants and plant machinery, the majority of his work is produced by the artist's own hands at the designated location.
A photographic document is then made of the work, with its location and the date of its completion, similar in this respect to the work of Richard Long and Hamish Fulton. Since the late 70s, established British artist Andy Goldsworthy has been making site-specific work in nature, using nature itself as a 'found object', as the raw material for his sculpture.
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