Figure cast in Bronze Resin, wing of wire and thread
Limited Edition: 50Size: 68cm x 25cm x 7cm
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ICARUS
- MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS -
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting For the miraculous birth there always must be Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating On a pond at the edge of the wood: They never forgot That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with the doggy life and torturer's horse Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Breughel's ICARUS, for instance, how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash; the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
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Originally sculpted on a piece of driftwood found just of the coast of Crete this was the first in a series of relief wall sculptures depicting the boy who flew too close to the sun.
"The scoring sun so close Softened the fragrant wax that bound his wings; The wax melted; his waving arms were bare; Unfledged, they had no purchase on the air, And calling to his father as he fell, The boy was swallowed in the blue sea's swell.."
(Extract from Ovid's "METAMORPHOSIS" LINES 227-232)
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Having sculpted these figures in clay - an amalgam of local players I passed in cafés on the way to my studio in the Old Town, Rhodes - I felt I needed to accentuate the tension in the sculpture with an accurate recreation of a particularly critical move. I took the clay piece to a café as a work in progress. A group of local men were pleased to help and after a raucous hour finally decided on the layout. Here the character on our left has just been Backgammoned by his opponent who was up until this point hopelessly losing the game. Their fantastically animated arguments over the positioning of these pieces reaffirmed why I was making this sculpture. The uniform tone of bronze resin prevents this detail from showing but it is now on record as a team effort. My thanks to all of them.
(This sculpture won't be available until Jan 2012)
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Having played the Irish drum (Bodhran) for many years and borne the brunt of the many jokes dealt out by instrumentalists to hapless, if happy, drummers: I felt it was time to reek revenge. Example of jokes hurled my way: Q) What d'you call people who hang out with musicians? A) Drummers
Any resemblance to musicians I have loved - and loved annoying - is entirely intentional
Fiddler cast in bronze and set in reclaimed timber
Limited Edition: 9
Size: 24cm x 19cm x 3cm
Price: £295 (incl VAT)
sorry, this sculpture is now sold out
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Inspired by the Fiddlers of Karpathos, a small island to the south west of Rhodes known locally as the Music Island, after a "Session" I was lucky enough to experience along with two musician friends from the UK where we alternated our Irish music with their Greek music. Musicians from the village turned up at the Taverna to play fiddles, drums and flutes many of which had been made by themselves from their own wood/goats/horse's hair etc.
