05 Dec

Posted at 08:53h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
12.7 x 10.2cm, 4pp artist's card with line drawing by Gary Hincks of a sail-like geometric shape. Below the shape is a quotation from Proclus "Elements of Theology":

Every effect remains in its cause, proceeds from it, and reverts upon it.

Despite being in a book that purported to be about theology this is an early statement about physics and causality. A causality (from wind) which a sail would very much experience to in turn cause movement in a boat. VG+.

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01 Dec

Posted at 08:47h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
15.1 x 11.5cm, 2pp artist's card with a typographic treatment by Peter Coates of a Finlay poem which has the Greek word for swallow as its title. The angular and sharp elements of the type reflect the wing tips (and to some extent the speed) of the ever moving birds.

SHRILL
TWITTER
SHARP
LITTLE
WINGS

The poem notes not just the sharpness of the wings but also the sharpness of the sound the bird makes. This work was also issued as a print by Finlay. VG+.

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25 Nov

Posted at 08:30h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
7.6 x 7.6cm, 4pp artist's card with the texts found on two benches. The first is:

TWO SILVERS
willows, olive

and TWO TELEGRAMS
swallows, swift

both are poetic metaphors for the trees and the birds. VG+.

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22 Nov

Posted at 08:25h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
12.5 x 14.5cm, 2pp artist's card with the image in red being of a Japanese airplane - on the back of the card Finlay notes that the Allies used the term "Vals" as code for the Aichi Navy Type 99 Carrier Bomber. Finlay uses the word "date" to refer to the attack on Pearl harbour on an exact day - "December 7, 1944". VG+.

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08 Nov

Posted at 08:17h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.2 x 14.6cm, 1pp artist's card with the title text with Finlay's reference showing the name Alysse relates to the Flower Class corvettes he finds so the drift of Alysse is not just a bunch of flowers but the movement of a ship. VG+.

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04 Nov

Posted at 08:14h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
11.6 x 26cm, 2pp artist's card with an attractive colour photograph by Pia Maria Simig of a model boat (presumably one of Finlay's) on a river or lake with the bank behind. The title of the card suggests this was a pleasant moment and in some ways perfect. VG+.

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01 Nov

Posted at 08:06h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
14.6 x 6.6cm, 1pp artist's card with two diagrams based on a pair of blue and red parallel stripes. Finlay indicated the first is really a hull even thought it may look like a blue/white/red flag. This is in fact a diagram of a Plimsoll line - which allows an observer to estimate the amount of ballast and the depth of the boat from the outside.
The second is indicated to be a flag not a hull - the colours have not changes but now represent the flag of a country - perhaps Columbia where may international ships are registered for tax reasons. VG+.

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22 Oct

Posted at 07:58h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10.7 x 7.8cm, 4pp artist's card printed black on white with a line drawing by Gary Hincks of a rudder. Internally there is a Finlay poem:

sanding a rudder
sawing a rudder
painting a rudder
patching a rudder
sealing a rudder
shipping a rudder
writing a rudder

The poem touches on all aspects of how a rudder might be made - that is, the way in which the unmade wood is guided into being a rudder. And at the end the final line refers to the foregoing - how to describe (write about /textually guide the way it is made) eight lines. Very self-referential. This work is dedicated by Finlay to Graham Rich and Ian Stephen, two friends who made much of their work about the sea and boats. VG+.

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18 Oct

Posted at 07:48h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
22.5 x 12.4cm, 2pp artist postcard with an abstract painting by Gary Hincks of a rudder with the pintles very apparent- the outer shape of the rudder shown in dashed lines. The wooden strappings (which add strength to the structure) are coloured and more apparent. Those strappings not only guide the wood on the rudder (in themselves causing directionality like the rudder) but also a maze like image where any path is guided by the blue bars. A visual self-reference. VG+.

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15 Oct

Posted at 21:29h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
12.7 x 22.6cm, 2pp artist postcard with an abstract painting by Gary Hincks of a Coble - a flat-bottomed fishing boat. The name Coble sounds very much like cobble and both share a characteristic of being roughly made and placed next to each other to form a shape (this is how a Coble hull is made - lengths of wood overlapping - which is shown in the painting with the red and blue stripes". VG+.

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12 Oct

Posted at 21:23h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10 x 15cm, 2pp artist postcard with a colour photograph by Pia Maria Simig (PMS) of one of Finlay's boat models. On the back the card reads:
MFV
iHF, PMS
WHP
Obviously the names of model maker and photographer and the publisher are abbreviated and so is "Motor Fishing Vessel". Finlay obviously enjoying the game of every aspect of the card being reduced to capital letters. VG+.

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27 Sep

Posted at 21:18h in Artist's Postcards

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1998
10 x 15cm, 2pp artist's postcard with a colour photograph by Robin Gillanders of a sculpture by Jo Hincks of three lemons in a bowl but each is painted blue and has a boat number on it. Finlay has often used the shape of lemons to indicate a boat and here in a bowl they are representative of being in a harbour.
This card has a hand-written note from Finlay (to Janet Boulton) which says "Don't know if you saw this before? Love Ian" in blue pen. VG+.

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