Walking San Francisco by Kathleen Dodge Doherty

Author:Kathleen Dodge Doherty
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780899979106
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Published: 2019-03-15T16:00:00+00:00

Backstory: Making a Muse of San Francisco

British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who makes his home in Scotland, has installed five pieces of art in San Francisco, making it the largest public collection of his work on view in North America. A renowned sculptor and environmentalist known for his site-specific art, his work has been captured in two visually evocative documentaries: Rivers and Tides (2001) and Leaning into the Wind (2017), both of which explore his fascination with the interplay of man and nature.

Known for his large-scale sculptures, often temporal, from found natural objects, Goldsworthy completed his first San Francisco installation in 2005. Titled Drawn Earth, it explores the city’s seismic topography in a cracked line wending its way toward the de Young Museum.

Most of his San Francisco work, however, is concentrated in the Presidio. In 2008 he told the The New York Times, “I love the fact that the Presidio is a complex landscape, both geologically and socially.” Fans of his work will want to make their way to the following installations:

Spire, created in 2008, found on the Bay Area Ridge Trail, north of the Presidio Golf Course Clubhouse

Wood Line, created in 2011, located on Lovers’ Lane

Tree Fall, created in 2013, inside the Powder Magazine, 95 Anza Ave.

Earth Ball, created in 2014, inside the Presidio Officers’ Club, 50 Moraga Ave.

In a 2017 interview with SF Weekly, Goldsworthy said, “The Wood Line in the Presidio is the most socially active sculpture I’ve ever made. Just the way people walk it, visit it. I don’t see people as audience but as participants in the work. And people are as much a part of the Presidio as the trees, the sand, the soil, and the sky—they’re bound up in that. That’s why I’m particularly attracted to a place like that. There’s a certain flow of human energy in that place.”

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