Lucianne Lassalle
Little Icarus with Burning Wings
Bronze on a stone base
31 x 15 x 14 cm
Edition of 15. Artist Copy.
£ 3,900.00
'Icarus has experienced freedom and joy so fully that he ignored, or choose to forget, the laws of physics and his body crashes down into the ocean. But not until...
"Icarus has experienced freedom and joy so
fully that he ignored, or choose to forget, the laws of physics and his
body crashes down into the ocean. But not until he has had the most amazing
experience, for everything it was worth and perhaps now his spirit is ascending
free of it’s earthly bounds… transcendence.
Icarus falls, wings burning,
ash covered, into the sea".
Icarus
NEVER regret thy fall
O Icarus
Of the fearless flight,
For the greatest tragedy
Of them all
Is
Never to feel
The
BURNING LIGHT...
~~ Oscar Wilde