September 25, 2020: If you’ve seen my other posts this week, the theme is Andy Goldsworthy. I can’t name all the ways he’s influenced me as an artist, photographer, therapist, and human. His art and process have value for us at any age. Taking your kids or teens out to make their own land art is a great hands-on way to get their brains and bodies connected to their outer and inner environments. Andy uses materials that nature provides. Leaves, mud, rocks, sticks, flowers, wa

September 24, 2020: Andy Goldsworthy taught me how to fail. Watching his creative process and listening to him reflect on his work has helped shift my mindset around making mistakes and failing. Sometimes I even look forward to it now. Time and temporality feel like enemies to a creature of finite existence. We often feel like we’re working against the clock. Andy talks about working with time, not against it. In an exchange with an onlooker during the filming of “Rivers and