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Yellow patch (elm)
[Leaf patches
edges made by finding leaves the same size
tearing one in two spitting underneath and pressing flat on to another]
Middleton Woods, Yorkshire
6 November 1980

© Andy Goldsworthy
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Diary: 6th Nov '80 Ilkley

Middleton Woods.

Walked further up wood -
windy - wet - elm leaves
dark/wet - made yellow
patch similar to the dark.
- enjoyed.


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In a 1983 documentary called 'Triangle' AG noted in relation to this work and also 82_153:
'I've made a lot of work with leaves but I think the most satisfying series of works I have made were coloured leaf patches, when you walk through the wood you suddenly catch a very bright green, yellow or red leaf. I picked up a very bright leaf and found more like it, and that involved a lot of searching and looking.' [AG, 'Triangle,' Border Television, 1983]

Related Images:

Keywords:

circles, colour, leaves, patches, yellow

Dates:

Work completed and recorded 6th November 1980.

Places:

Middleton Woods, Ilkley, Yorkshire, UK.

Bibliography:

AGA: S/Bk_001, no illus.
Rain (1985), col. illus., p. 59
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
YELLOW PATCH (ELM)
6 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: 1/3 [Others: P];
Archival Disk: 1980_006