Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers and Tides

Yes, I’m into documentaries these days. They’ve become more interesting to me than most movies available today. I’m not a White Chick movie kind of person, though I hear it’s quite funny. (But I actually am a white chick, perhaps a few years beyond the “chick” category. Go figure.)

What a feast for the eyes and heart. If you love nature, love beauty, love creativity rent or buy this one.

Andy Goldsworthy is a sculptor. Some of his pieces last only seconds. Therefore he photographs all his work. The books of his work draw me in again and again.

I would venture a guess that Andy Goldsworthy is an Artisan, ISFP.

An Artisan (SPs) because he works with the physical world, what is, and painstakingly builds intricate compositions of natural elements like stone, fallen tree limbs, twigs, thorns, water, rocks, iron ore, snow. He assembles all by hand in a variety of compositions to delight the senses.

He seems to be absolutely in the moment as he works, not hurrying or worrying about the time pressure. That is another attribute of Artisans, their time orientation is now. But he’s fully aware of the setting sun, the rising water, and the pressure to finish the sculpture before it’s impossible to work.

It would be hard to make a case for anything but a preference for Introversion. He is the quiet one in the midst of his family of a wife and little girls. He spends most days all alone and enjoys every minute of it. If he’s away from nature and without time alone, he longs for it and is pulled to return.

Why Feeling preference? Hard to say, just a feeling I have. Okay that’s not good enough. He has a gentle quality to him that ISFPs often share. His feeling preference would most likely be introverted (according to type dynamics models), meaning he would not display the variety of emotions he is feeling. He would make his decisions by a strong set of values that he holds dear. But he wouldn’t necessarily share them.

That’s my guess. Let me know if you see something different.

Meg Ellis Movies, Myers-Briggs Type Theory



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