ECHOES SERIES (ARBRE DE LA LIBERTE). 1995.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995
10.5 x 5cm, 4pp card with a 4pp insert. Two drawings – both concrete poems (or Calligrammes) one the original by Guillaume Apollinaire and the other by Ron Costley after Finlay’s instruction. Apollinaire’s Eloge de l’arbre has the text: “arbre qui fut la displante par Victor Hugo” – praising the socialist writer (the tree that was planted by Victor Hugo), Finlay’s reflection becomes “Abre de la liberte et sa floraison”(Liberty tree and its flowering) a reference to the french Revolution and the symbolic trees shown at the feasts and celebrations. A lovely small concrete work. VG+.