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ICARUS - the man who fell

I began working on some imagery based on the myth of Icarus in preparation for a teaching programme. I ended up making a complete book. The pages do not follow any narrative sequence, but they are linked by a red thread - reference to the thread that guided Theseus out of the labyrinth (which was built by Daedalus, Icarus's father). 

Many of the pages are built from transfer-rubbings of photos I took in the Victoria and Albert Museum and of churches in France  overlaid with paint, then drawn and collaged over. I use hand-cut stencils, freehand drawing and other bits and bobs. I hope this sequence is on-going... I certainly need to re-work a few. 

The pictures here appear in no definitive order.
                                                                 > Click on each image to enlarge it.
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Title page

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Daedalus wonders what he made - 
his aim to confuse,
both to imprison and set free

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the remains of a labyrinth can be seen,
particularly when the sun is at a particular angle

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i'm my father's boy

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lift me from the earth

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oh bewilderment of wings!

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you, mother, would have worried -
the cold, the rain, the heat

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they looked so beautiful, rank
on rank on rank

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1800 revs 

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head spinning ...

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past the cross

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measured testing

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the tower, the view

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and so he arced them
as his father watched fixt'ly
and the boy began to fall ...

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the deck was suddenly covered with feathers

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tumbling and pitching and the light, the light

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the boat, the sea so close -
(too close, too close)

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l'homme qui est tombe

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fall / burn

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a stone angel from the fragile 'plane flew

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I remembered being earth-bound
amidst the kicking yellow

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... and fell

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like a flock of falling starlings

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But, I flew

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