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Icarus

2021 - Set of three 34x50cm ; 60x33cm ; 50x60cm - Edition 3/9
A perfect subject for a contemporary classicist who likes wings.  We all know what happened to him, and images of him resonate with our innate knowledge of his fate.  Like the voice of Otis Reading who died at the age of 27, we are haunted by this knowledge in when we hear his songs.
” Icarus preparing for Flight ” is inspired by Freddie Mercury coming out onto the stage for a concert in one of his more flamboyant costumes.  It is supposed to give the feeling of tension before a great act.
Flight of Icarus, and other versions, are soaring free on wings that are about to fall to pieces.

Icarus Preparing for Flight

2019 - 38cm high - Edition 3/9

LES PLAINTES D’UN ICARE

Les amants des prostituées
Sont heureux, dispos et repus ;
Quant à moi, mes bras sont rompus
Pour avoir étreint des nuées.

C’est grâce aux astres nonpareils,
Qui tout au fond du ciel flamboient,
Que mes yeux consumés ne voient
Que des souvenirs de soleils.

En vain j’ai voulu de l’espace
Trouver la fin et le milieu ;
Sous je ne sais quel oeil de feu
Je sens mon aile qui se casse ;

Et brûlé par l’amour du beau,
Je n’aurai pas l’honneur sublime
De donner mon nom à l’abîme
Qui me servira de tombeau.

C. BAUDELAIRE

Icarus in Flight

2015 - 92x55x30cm - Edition 3/9

Icarus IV

2009 - 57x38x35cm - Edition 3/9