IMPROVISATION NO. 1. 1977.

Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1977

6.6 x 21cm, 2pp. A photographic card with a b/w image of a lily pond and the surface pond scum which has been disturbed by the passage of a swimming bird to leave lines in the algae. Amusingly Finlay credits this painterly image to himself, Carl Heideken (the photographer) and an “unidentified waterhen”. The image is meant to appear like an improvised painting or even an avant garde music score (if one squints a bit and uses one’s imagination) hence the title. VG+.