NATIONAL FLAGS SERIES: CYTHERA. 1975.

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1975.
10.5 x 15cm, 2pp. The one of a series of “National Flags” created by Finlay – here a rectangle with cross hatching in green and light yellow. Cytheria is a reference to several things – the mythical country, the painting “Journey to Cytheria” which Finlay has created prints and works about before and less known a bee which has green and yellow stripes. The colours nonetheless have the feel of those of an island landscape (vegetation and sand) and that is probably the more likely visual correspondence here. A flag for a desirable place to visit. VG+.