I Only Know What is Just (Make your own Sundial Cube)

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

PublisherPublished by Wild Hawthorn Press (founded 1961)

Daten.d.

Object NamePrint

Mediumink, card

ClassificationsPrints

DimensionsUnfolded: 29.5 x 21cm

AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.

LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub

Object numberABDAG017433

Keywords

Sun & Moon

About MeTemplate of a cube printed on a sheet of folded red card. Markings for a sundial are printed on the cube, as is the motto "I Only Know What is Just." Text below the template explains that the motto is taken from Saint-Just's Republican Institutions and that the work is a collaboration with Iain Calder-Stewart.

This work is part of an archive that belonged to Joyce Laing OBE. The artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, was a personal friend and sent her an example of each new poem print and multiple as it was made.
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Finlay was also a poet and lots of his art uses words, where the fonts and type-setting contribute to the overall effect.