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Ian Hamilton Finlay, Age Quod Agis / Rubbing Post for a Wild Boar, 1997

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Age Quod Agis / Rubbing Post for a Wild Boar, 1997
stone, with Peter Coates
60 1/4 x 8 1/8 in (153 x 20.6 cm)
(transl.: “What you are doing, do thoroughly”) This post, displaying three of the four type of ornamental rustication illustrated in the Renaissance treatise, 'Five Books about Architecture,' by Sebastiano Serlio,...
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(transl.: “What you are doing, do thoroughly”)

This post, displaying three of the four type of ornamental rustication illustrated in the Renaissance treatise, "Five Books about Architecture," by Sebastiano Serlio, offers an ideal surface against which a boar might thoroughly rub its coat. The Latin injunction is self-explanatory: to do anything well, one must do it thoroughly.
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