Description
This is a triptych, 80x120cm ; 100x120cm ; 80x120cm; oil and mixed media on canvas, inspired by the Greek myth of Icarus.
He and his father, master craftsman Daedalus, were imprisoned by Minos and escaped using wings Daedalus constructed from birds’ molted feathers, threads from blankets, the leather straps from their sandals, and beeswax. Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too low or the water would soak the feathers and not to fly too close to the sun or the heat would melt the wax. However Icarus ignored Daedalus’s instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt, he fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, “flying too close to the sun.”
