This is a sculpture I have been working on for over a year. The story is about Ikarus, the son of Daedalus. Daedalus was the designer of the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. The king, as kings do, wanted the secret of the Labyrinth, to you know, remain secret. So… Daedalus had to take the secret to his grave. Daedalus didn’t want to die, so he built two sets of wings, one for him and one for Ikarus. They were attached to their shoulders with wax, of all things. Daedalus told Ikarus not to fly too close to the sun. As we all know, Ikarus was filled with hubris, and when he flew too high, the wax melted, and good bye Ikarus.
What no one knows is that Daedalus had built wings before. When Ikarus was very young, Daedalus built a tricycle with wings as a third birthday present. So, the sculpture is called “Happy Third Birthday Ikarus, Love Daedalus”. Well, that’s the end of this shaggy dog story.
The wings are cedar and steel, and the trike is steel with plastic wheels.