One of the most famous artist who work with ephemeral materials is Andy Goldsworthy a landscape artist living and working in Scotland he works in a great range of mediums, he constructs the fast majority of his work by simply walking out into the forests around his home and using a technique called bricolage meaning “made from anything close to hand” his work is always organic using natural materials such as stone twigs leaves ice sand pebbles wool sticks to create beautiful flowing natural forms, his most well known work is probably the “eggs” witch he constructs stone using no mower, these are made all over the place most lasting years but some he constructs quickly on the shoreline witch the intention of theme being washed apart by the incoming tides.
Almost all of his work is ephemeral in terms of our life times however some such as his “wall” a giant dry stone wall that snakes in and out of trees mimicking a river this construction could potentially stand for hundreds of years.
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