Wing of Icarus

1998

Tangerine Alabaster / Yule Marble

42”H x 23”W x 11”D

Unavailable.

Discovered 1995, Aegean earthquakes near the island of Paros, Greece. This newly discovered eax-like wing fragment makes us ponder the possibility that Icarus, generally though to be a mythological character, may really have existed. Wearing wings made of wax and feathers, youn Icarus, as the ancient story goes, flew too close to the sun despite warnings. When the max melted Icarus fell to the sea to his death.