Andy Goldsworthy is an English Environmental Artist living in Scotland who has been making art for over 20 years. Within his own environmental art, he specializes in working with the textures of nature. He choices his material and studies how it reacts with things like the weather, wear and tear, human touch, etc. This is where he gets the majority of his ideas when it comes to his projects. What material can he use and how can he make it seamlessly blend into nature while still allowing the average person to identify while being out? When it comes to the pieces themselves they all center around two themes. Decay of natural things in their environment, and the loss of time around us. If you look back at Goldsworthy’s sculpture Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), you can see this sort of decay in process. The branch had fallen into this sort of grave and collapsing in on itself. As if it had been hit by a storm or cut down by man and left there instead of being taken and disposed of properly. The same goes for the Stone House. If one were to come across such a structure in the woods, they may think that it was once owned by a family who live before. But when looking even further, the house looks run down and not good for living in. It’s the decay of the natural environment. This leads into the the next theme to explore. We are running out of time. This decay of material in nature is cool to think about when we look at it purely from an environmental perspective, but when it comes to thinking about how much time it takes for these materials to decay, it gives the viewer this horrid thought of how much time may have been passing since the piece was first built.