Sackcloth
| 1988
oil on canvas with collage | 71 x 56 cm
Sackcloth, n. a terrestrial stuff, a celestial stuff.
He that thus hungers is sure to be filled. Fasting may prevent starving, and wearing SACKCLOTH for a while keep us from wearing it all our days.
South, Sermons
(Ian Hamilton Finlay, A Concise Classical Dictionary, Wild Hawthorn Press, 1988)