Photography, Nature 

From the inside flap:

Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinary, innovative British artist whose collaboration with nature produces uniquely personal and intense artworks. Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials - snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers, petals, twigs - he creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleetingly, a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy records his works in the superb color photographs that are the subject of this book.

Goldsworthy has written an introduction that evokes how he works in nature and how he perceives his own art and its earth-born sources. He deliberately exposes the tension of working the area where he finds his materials, and is undeterred by changes in the weather which may melt a spectacular ice arch or wash away a delicate structure of grasses. The artist's intention is not to "make his mark" on the landscape, but rather to work with it instinctively, so that a delicate screen of bamboo or massive snow rings or a circle of leaves floating in a pool create a new perception and an ever-growing understanding of the land.