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Green patch (elm)
[Leaf patches
edges made by finding leaves the same size
tearing one in two
spitting underneath and pressing flat onto one another]
Middleton Woods, Yorkshire
7 Novemeber 1980

© Andy Goldsworthy
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Diary: 7th Nov Ilkley

Middleton Woods -
Collected green elm leaves
on the way - took a few
from each tree - the
only place there were any
green - back to wood
- elm leaves on ground
made green patch.

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AG said of this work in a 1983 documentary 'Triangle':
'I wanted to concentrate that [intensity?] in a patch, I made the edge of the patch by finding say a green leaf and an ordrinary leaf I tore the green leaf in half, spat underneath the one I tore in half and pressed it on top of the other one so it became one leaf.' [AG, Triangle, Border Television, 1983]

Related Images:

Keywords:

circles, colour, leaves, patches

Dates:

Work completed and recorded 7th November 1980.

Places:

Middleton Woods, Ilkley, Yorkshire, UK.

Bibliography:

AGA: S/Bk_001, no illus.;
Rain (1985), col. illus., p. 58;
Collaboration (1990), col. illus.

Listed in Clive Adams, 'Catalogue Raisonne of Photographs,' Hand to Earth (1990), p. 172:

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Leaf patches / edges made by finding leaves the same size / tearing one in two / spitting underneath and pressing flat on to another
MIDDLETON WOODS,ILKLEY YORKSHIRE
GREEN PATCH (ELM)
7 NOVEMBER 1980
1 frame
2 Cibachrome photographs
39 x 29 and 39 x 26
(15 3/8 x 11 3/8 and 15 3/8 x 10 1/4)
framed 74 x 92 (29 1/8 x36 1/4)

St Martin's College, Lancaster

Source:

Colour 35mm slide;
Film: Kodachrome 64;
AGA location: P;
No. of images: 1/2 [Others: P];
Archival Disk: 1980_006