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A Sail in Plato

Artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)

Date1995

Mediumprinted ink on card

ClassificationsPrints

Dimensions14.8 x 10.5cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG017314

About MeThis work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend of the donor and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made.

A SAIL

'That,' said he, 'is very neat; you make one to be
in many places at once, just as if you should
spread a SAIL over many persons and then
should say the SAIL was one, and all of it was
over many. Is that what you mean?'
'perhaps it is.'
'Would the whole SAIL be over each person,
or a particular part over each?'
'A part of the SAIL over each.'
'Then', said he, 'the ideas themselves are
divisble into parts, and the objects which partake
of them, such as our SAIL, would be not the whole,
but only a part of each idea.'
'So it appears.'

A sail in Plato (Parmenides dialogue). Wild Hawthorn Press

http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/1995.html