The camera accompanies Goldsworthy on daily excursions in Dumfriesshire and throughout a week's residence in Newfoundland, noting his unusual working habits: he arrives on site with no preconceived ideas, makes ephemeral works with the material at hand, photographing both successes and failures on a daily basis. Surprisingly, the failures render his body of work all the more exquisite. "I often see my work looking stronger with each piece that is added," says Goldsworthy, "but also know that each addition takes it closer to the edge of collapse. So many of my sculptures are within a hair's breadth of failure. Beauty does not avoid difficulty but hovers dangerously above it -- like walking on thin ice."