THREE WILD FLOWERS. 1995.

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1995

10.3 x 10.3cm, 12pp plus typographic card covers. A b/w photograph by Robin Gillanders of wild flowers in the Picpus Cemetary where many of the guillotined dead during the last months of the Terror were buried in mass graves and a text by Finlay:


THREE WILD FLOWERS

Julie Boissard
Adelaide Lienard
Agathe Greaude

These are names of three of the women who were murdered during the Terror and buried in the cemetery. Finlay’s suggestion that they be seen as wild flowers re-emerging from the ground is a beautiful memorial. VG+.