Land Art

Land Art, Earthworks, or Earth Art are types of art created by artist with natural/ organic material gathered by the artist and used to construct the artist’s vision.  Artist such Andy Goldsworthy use materials such as leaves, stones, ice, twigs and branches what ever is available at hand given from nature.  Land art is typically ephemeral, and becomes part of its surroundings, and as the surroundings change so does the created art leaving it to erode under natural conditions or disappear all together.  Most of the time land art is photographed or recorded so to document it ever existing.  In the art world artist say that creating the art is part of the art itself.  What I mean by this is: the feeling and the process all become the art.  I want to know how you feel about this type of art or is it art?