Echoes Series
ArtistDesigned/Sent by
Ian Hamilton Finlay
(Nassau, Bahamas, 1925 - 2006)
RecipientReceived by
Joyce Laing
(Aberdeen, Scotland, 1939 - 2022)
PrinterPrinted by
Wild Hawthorn Press
(founded 1961)
Date2009
Object NameCard
Mediumcard, ink
ClassificationsPrints
DimensionsPaper Size: 9.9 x 8.6cm
Envelop: 11.5 x 16.3cm
Envelop: 11.5 x 16.3cm
AcquisitionPresented in 2010 by Joyce Laing OBE.
Copyright© Estate of Ian Hamilton Finlay (2009)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG017594
About MeFolding card designed by Ian Hamilton Finlay and printed on blue card by the Wild Hawthorn Press. It features the following text, arranged in circle as a mirror image across the centrefold.(front)
ECHOES
SERIES
(inside)
IN THIS MIR ROR I AM EN CLOSED AL IVE AND REAL AS YOU I MAG INE AN GELS AND NOT AS REF LE CT I ONS ARE
Guilaume Apollinaire
IN THIS MIR ROR I AM EN CLOSED AFL OAT AND REAL AS YOU I MAG INE MARI NERS AND NOT AS REF LE CT I ONS ARE
Ian Stephen
(back)
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Wild Hawthorn Press
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.
More About Me
Here Finlay evokes and acknowledges Apollinaire in producing this calligram: a poem in which the layout and style of the letters are just as integral to the overall effect as the words themselves.
