Red Leaves/Difficult to Find/Held with Water/To the Tip of a Quarried Stone/Government Island, Virginia October 13

A meticulously arranged suite of nine vivid cibachrome prints documents Goldsworthy's ephemeral intervention with red autumn leaves, water, and the rough-hewn surface of a quarried stone on Government Island, Virginia. True to his practice of working exclusively with natural materials found on-site, the artist harnessed the fleeting qualities of seasonal color and liquid to create a temporary composition that exists now only through these photographic records. The accompanying text photograph grounds the work in its precise moment of creation, reinforcing Goldsworthy's insistence that time, place, and process are as integral to the artwork as the resulting image.