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1985_023

Balanced ice column
Helbeck Craggs, Cumbria
5 January 1985

© Andy Goldsworthy
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Diary: 5th Jan - Helbeck Craggs

Went to small pool below craggs
- ice - thick enough to stand on-
[creaked] - calm at first - broke ice
after trying other things - it takes courage
to break surface - began to stack ice -
wanted to make construction -
excited at getting three storeys - then
added another - and another - and
another...Each time believing
it would be last - however
it was so cold the ice was
freezing together
making it strong enough
to build tall.
Turned what was a
relatively uninteresting work
into something more
special.

beautiful grey/blue
sky.
snowing.

[In his slide index, AG dates this work as the 24th of 1985. In his diary, this work is in fact the first entry for 1985.]

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Keywords:

balanced, columns, frozen, ice, stacked

Dates:

Work completed and recorded 5th January 1985.

Places:

Helbeck Craggs, Brough, Cumbria, UK.

Bibliography:

AGA: S/Bk_011, col. illus., text

Source:

Colour 2 1/4in. square transparency;
Film: Fujichrome;
AGA location: 85/2;
No. of images: 1/14 [Others: 85/2; see also 35mm slide: S/C; 85/Feb/D];
Archival Disk: 1985_006