Temple

"L'Ombra Medita Sulla Luce -
Shadows Muse On Light"

A collaboration with
Ian Hamilton Finlay

2002

Tervoux Limestone, Gilded Inscription

3.5 m x 2.25m diam.

Sited at Fleur de L'Air, Provence, France

Fleur de L'Air is a garden in Provence created by poet-gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay and Pia Maria Simig in collaboration with the owner. It is a project spanning more than ten years and involving the siting of numerous works, inscriptional, architectural and statuary - distinct from Finlay's own garden, Little Sparta, not only in terms of topography but in design process and scale. Little Sparta is an evolving and growing expression of its creator, whereas Fleur de l'Air is a planned and patronised project that is now complete. It is the subject of a book of the same title, photographed by camera obscura,
published by Wild Hawthorn Press