Reflective blog on Andy Goldsworthy's Rivers and Tides

Rivers and Tides

- A documentary film by Thomas Riedelsheimer(2001)

"Rivers and Tides" offers a rare glimpse of the creations of Andy Goldsworthy. The theme of this short documentary is "Transitory nature of art and life". Everything which is created is destroyed by nature after some period of time. Birth and death is the truth of nature.

In this documentary Andy creates unique things. The natural shape of nature is round. Nature has no sharp design. Sharp design is created by human. 

Andy is constantly working with tides and rivers and beautifully created the things with stones, leaves, woods etc. 

created with stones

With the passage of time this stone house is dissolved in river. Time is powerful and nothing is immortal. There is one poem by Shakespeare "Not Marble, Nor the Gilded Monuments"  which deals with the theme of immortality through verse. The thought is about the futility of monuments and statues is developed and wounded up very skillfully.

Andy Goldsworthy is making shape of tides with iceberg. He has done so much effort to give shape to teh iceberg but how long it leave. It will melt when sun rays passes on it. He is working with time wchich is constantly changing. He uses land as canvas to show his artictic value and also gives philosophical meaning into it. Destruction is the rule of nature.

Spiral shape of nature

Everything in this nature is in spiral shape or circular. There are no triangular shape

This short documentary is excellent example of documenting events.