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Icarus 9" x 27" Mixed media: cut paper,vulture feather, gold leaf. and pencil $350.00
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This piece is based on the Greek myth which acts as a warning against the self destructive folly of youth. Icarus ignoring his father's instructions and exhalting in the illusion of freedom flys to close to the sun. This results in melting the wax holding his wings together and plumeting to his death. Meanwhile, his father, through his temperance flies to safty and true freedom. Who hasn't gotten burned by ignoring the advise of their elders, or born witness to the painfull lessons of a youth who does not head your warnings. As a former 8th grade art teacher, who learned most of my lessons the hard way, I found something kindred in the story of Icarus to the daily dramas of middle school. I knew all to well my advise would be ignored or dismissed just as I rolled my eyes at the adults who tried to spare me some of life's abundant pain. |
