I was drawn to Andy Goldsworthy when I saw his sculptures made from just natural materials found in the Scottish countryside.  He's a great Scottish artist who uses whatever nature offers him to create his incredible yet temporary works.  If it's autumn, he'll work with leaves.  When it's winter, he'll work with ice and snow, and so on.  Everything he creates is for the purpose of being recorded through photography.  I was interested how he could take a few sticks and transform what they were through sculpture.  I tried doing this in the photo studio by photographing the rock and making it appear like it's something else, or the vines growing around the tree trunk (although I didn't alter the tree in any way) or the close up of the bark on a log I found.  He's a great inspiration to me and urges me to deal directly with nature first hand in order to change the meaning and appearance.

Here's some of his work.