So I had to ask “Who is the figure that appeared?”
I decided fairly quickly that it was Icarus with contemporary interpretations. The possibility that people can fly like the birds to escape from difficulties has always been attractive even with the associated dangers.
The first images began together but were separated for the exhibition. Later Icarus appeared with hands in the air. He appeared quickly as a response to Angela’s cartoon drawings.
Later still he is hanging on to a ?sun ?a clock … ? to save himself.The phrase “Flying to close to the sun” become the title for this image & the work (the print) that I is still struggling to come into being.
I like to use myths & fairytales and Icarus could stand for both my low key anxiety & mistrust of my place in the art world and my moral & ethical concerns about the environment.
I have always held on closely to the notion that any art work I make is transient and so the practical ways we have explored in creating the collages have been liberating.
The act of cutting up old work, using material I have been given but have not chosen and then reworking and cutting up the first collages to make new collages is an exciting journey to new territory every time I begin.
It still amazes me that at some point in the process the real images to which am connected, and which I want to develop I as an artist start to come to consciousness in this process .
