Andy Goldsworthy | To Dwell Creatively with Earth and Sky

This book talks about two related senses of clearing: one relates to clarity and the operation of a light in which things might be seen clearly and distinctly; the other refers to a place, an opening or a field, in which human can build and __________________________

• survive

• populate

• endure

• dwell

Andy's works show that we dwell on solid ground but profoundly in a place, along things that do not stay permanently and are often far from stable, in flux and fluctuating because engendered or created with the waters and winds

• True

• False

Andy Goldsworthy finds his materials: barks, leaves, stones, sticks at the place; he does not bring anything with him

• True

• False

Andy leaves nature untouched

• True

• False

Being human is not only the capacity of language and reason but is made possible by the human ______________

• foot

• hand

• body

• head

The hand frees us to be the rational and linguistic being that we are: without hands we would need to use our mouths and tongues for grabbing, not speaking; and the posture the accompanies the freehand implies a brain capable of language and reason

• True

• False

The world that opens with the hand is not already completed actuality, but possibility and

• potential

• plausibility

• development

• probability

Potentiality means that however much knowledge of a situation one might achieve the actual outcome remains uncertain and always surprising when it occurs because one has mastered is probabilities and statistics

• True

• False

"Let hope it works"-It is as if God creates the world good but without the certainty or "blind confidence" that his creation will stay good. He creates with an exclamation of hope because he knows the world will run its own course, like the

• tree

• cloud

• river

• moon

His hands are creative in that they let go, releasing and sending things on their ___________________, unsecured way of ongoing exposure in the clearing of a world

• certainty

• uncertainty

• clarity

• ambiguity