paul robertson, Author at Unoriginal Sins

12 Aug HOT DAY. 1996.

Posted at 16:20h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
9.8 x 4.1cm, 4pp artist's card with a drawing by Jo Hincks on the front and inside a poem by Finlay:

HOT
DAY

Gary
Vida
Rhoda
Jo

in
boats

12.7.96

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Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1996) 13 x 9.5cm, 4pp artist's card with a reproduced watercolour drawing of a blue sailship by Gary Hincks and a long "quotation" supposedly from Heinrich von Osterdingen which Finlay dubs "An Alternative Opening" where a young man thinks about a tale of a blue sailboat and how much he would love to see such a thing. In a 1802 book about Heinrich von Osterdingen by Novalis the young man dreams about a blue flower (rather than a boat). The blue flower became a regular reference in symbolism for romance - here Finlay alters the symbolism to that of the sea and long voyagesVG+.

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03 Aug ZEIT. 1996.

Posted at 12:12h in ARTIST’S BOOKS

Munchen: Gina Kehayoff Verlage, 1996
21 x 14cm, 64pp plus card covers. Artist's book consisting of 62 b/w photographic images of 31 people showing both younger and older selves opposite each other on each two pages. Minimal text in German. VG+.

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02 Aug NEW BOAT. 1996.

Posted at 19:52h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.8 x 7.8cm, 4pp, A drawing of a boat's rudder by Gary Hincks on the front of the card has a poem by Finlay inside:

NEW BOAT
BR> Pintles cast bronze -

Rudder mahogany -
Varnish like ice on
A clear water pool.

A pintle is the attachment for a rudder. Finlay has other works that liken the varnish found on a rudder to ice. VG+.

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01 Aug ECHOES. SERIES: AFTER LZ. 1996.

Posted at 19:01h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14 x 6.4cm, 4pp, The poem (after Louis Zukofsky) is

AFTER LZ
BR> an
other

in
equality

wild

flower

The pairs of words when conjoined change the meaning to the opposite - which is also true of the last two words which are spaced apart to make the pairing less obvious. VG+.

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27 Jul DROWNED FISH? FEATHER? 1996.

Posted at 19:53h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
14 x 7.6cm, 4pp, A two part poem is illustrated by Gary Hincks with three feathers:

Drowned
fish?
feather

drowned
fish?

Finlay's fondness for minimal changes in word order is here - giving different images - a "drowned fish" (something which is not possible unless you change the definition of "drown") may be a feather that has been mistakenly identified, a feather drowned in turn might be seen to be a fish. VG+.

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24 Jul CHAIN. 1996.

Posted at 18:15h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
7.7 x 7cm, 4pp, outer folder with an internal tipped in 14.3 x 6cm (open size) sheet with the word Daisy repeated seven times in different type fonts. Literally making a daisy chain. VG+.

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22 Jul CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI FACES. 1996. SIGNED BY BOLTANSKI.

Posted at 15:53h in EPHEMERA

N.p.: n.p., 1996
11 x 13.7cm, digital output on gloss paper. A handmade postcard perhaps with a photoshopped collage of "faces" taken from Boltanski works. However this has been signed on the reverse in ink by Boltanski,

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16 Jul MAP OF STOCKTON PARK INCLUDING “HAMILTON FINLAY SCULPTURE GARDEN”. 1996.

Posted at 21:30h in Miscellany

Luton: Stockwood Park, n.d. (1996)
21 x 30, 1pp offset printed green on white - a site map of Stockwood Park which shows Finlay's "Improvement Garden" as an important area to visit. Finlay created for the venue a classical garden in which the sculptures are an integral part of the landscape. Folded for storage and a few ink words written on back including the date else VG+.

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15 Jul DELIGHT. 1996.

Posted at 18:11h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, n.d. (1996)
7.7 x 7.7cm, 8pp plus card covers. Artist's book with two drawings by Gary Hincks.

A text "Open the little hatch" is accompanied by a line drawing of a hatch in a toy boat - on a second double page spread the text is "Look in the little hold" and the drawing is of a nets inside the hold that can be seen now the hatch is open. Finlay enjoyed making model boats. VG+. ...

14 Jul HOVIS. 1996.

Posted at 09:39h in Artist's Books

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1996
11 x 10.5cm, 12pp with card covers and printed dust jacket. Three drawings by Hinks show a square of brown overlapped on the a slice of bread (Hovis Loaf), a brick (Hovis Brick) and a sail (Hovis Sail). Hovis is a brand name for cheap commercial brown bread in the UK - the brown square reminding one of a single slice. Bricks share a similar colour and one assumes so do sails.

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03 Jul HARVESTER PD98/ GLEANER B275. FULL SHEET OF STAMPS IN WINDOW ENVELOPE. 1996.

Posted at 15:16h in Object + Paper Multiples

Edinburgh: City of Edinburgh Museums and Galleries, 1996
Two sheets of cinderella stamps - each 14,5 x 13cm, consisting of 12 stamps with designs by Finlay and Gary Hincks issued separately from the book (stamp album) "The Illustrated Stamp Album for Postage Stamps of the World: Imagined Lands; Vol. XIV Scotland." > The book was issued in 500 copies but some of the stamps were available separately. The brown 35p stamp -HARVESTER- shows a wooden old fashioned fish box (where fish are sold at market from) and the blue 1 euro - GLEAMER - shows a more modern plastic version of the same box. The move from the traditional to the new reflects the change in marItime law that took place when the UK entered the European Union.
Finlay did cards and also an unique work based on these boat names and registration numbers. PD is Peterhead and B is Belfast.

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