A Summer Like No Other

In Hedge crawl, Andy Goldsworthy ventures to play out the unexpected and seemingly simple action of crawling through a hedge in the cold of dawn. Like many of his staged works, what draws me to this video is its unadulterated presentation of a physically difficult action through an unlikely space. We may not be directly experiencing the action and the scrapes and the cold, but we are made aware of the struggle and discomfort and beauty of the scene through the sights and sounds of snapping branches, the grunts and exertion, the birds and crickets, and the changing light of an early morning. – Jon Cancro