Et In Arcadia Ego

A collaboration with
Ian Hamilton-Finlay

Riven Slate, new moulded brick detailing

1998

Sited at the Hofvijver, The Hague, Netherlands

Commissioned by Stroom:
the city's Arts Board

"The Haagse Stream rises in the dunes, and flows for several miles through the city, before spilling its polluted waters into the formal Court Pool. Plans are in progress to uncover, and purify, the source of the stream, which is presently buried under a city rubbish dump. With the completion of the inscription, and the carefully engineered raising of the outfall, we should then imagine that the waters are addressing us: 'I, too was in Arcadia'."
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Wild Hawthorn Press