The ancient Greek hero Icarus was inventive, clever but also arrogant. It was his arrogance that destroyed him. Can he be seen as a personification of all humanity as we poison our atmosphere, heat our planet and possibly drive ourselves to extinction? This series of work illustrates that parallel:
This piece is configured with gold paint and a watercolour fineline pens. Depicting Icarus as a metaphor for the whole human race, here you notice he doesn't have a face even before his fall.
MIXED MEDIA
This piece, small in stature, makes the correlation between wispy clouds within the car with lots of ambiguity between the headlights and the clouds.
MIXED MEDIA
Here Icarus's foolishness is depicted in collage of rusted, twisted metal.
My last piece is a depiction of the final crash. Rusted metal, wax and feathers
The ancient Greek hero Icarus was inventive, clever but also arrogant. It was his arrogance that destroyed him. Can he be seen as a personification of all humanity as we poison our atmosphere, heat our planet and possibly drive ourselves to extinction? This series of work illustrates that parallel: