1983, Ian Hamilton Finlays Little Sparta garden: The Present Oder is the Disorder of the Future

"The blocks look like a ruin. They're fashioned to suggest the fragments of what was once a massive inscription. Each shattered piece has a single word carved in Roman capitals. The words are in English, but they're derived from a speech by the young French Revolutionary leader, the most fanatical of the Jacobins, Louis Antoine Saint-Just.

They read: "THE / PRESENT / ORDER / IS / THE / DISORDER / OF / THE / FUTURE / SAINT- / JUST". They are laid out in a 3-3-3-2 formation, as if arranged by a modern archaeologist, in what seemed the right sequence.

But as these words lie there, announcing revolution, they raise a question. Is their present order their correct order? Finlay made a print version of the work that makes this explicit. It shows a drawing of the eleven pieces, and beneath them the instruction: "Cut around outlines. Arrange words in order"."

www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/...

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Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Sets appears in: • Scotland 2015 • Ian Hamilton Finlays' Little Sparta, Near Edinburgh, Scotland

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