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Balanced river stones
Brough, Cumbria
24 September 1982

© Andy Goldsworthy
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Diary: 24th Sept.

worked by river. windy.

4 slabs, one stone
4 slabs

last one I really didn't think
would work - wobbled like [...]
then
suddenly held!

Put on another
didn't believe it.

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Keywords:

balanced, columns, flat, stacked, stones

Dates:

Work completed and recorded 24th September 1982.

Places:

Swindale Beck, Brough, Cumbria, UK.

Bibliography:

AGA: S/Bk_006, col. illus., text
Rain (1985), col. illus., p. 48 [title different]
Collaboration (1990), col. illus., np
Two Autumns (1993), col. illus., p.91

Listed in Clive Adams, 'Catalogue Raisonne of Photographs,' Hand to Earth (1990), p. 174:

74
Balanced river stones
SWINDALE BECK WOOD, CUMBRIA
24 SEPTEMBER 1982
1 frame
2 Cibachrome photographs
26.6 x 36.8 and 36.8 x 26.6
(10 x 14 1/2 and 14 1/2 x 10)
framed 61 x 86.3 (24 x 34)

Source:

Colour 35mm slide;
Film: Kodachrome 64;
AGA location: 82/Sept/E;
No. of images: 1/11 [Others: S/C; 82/Sept/E/F];
Archival Disk: 1982_004