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

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

Andy leaves nature untouched

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

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

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

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

"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

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

Andy's work does not establish the roots that would fix in place the things he builds or ________________them to the ground. Build in a clearing that includes rivers and tides, most everything he makes is carried away and slips out of reach as it is set adrift on the journey of its coming to be in time