Unique piece

Year: 2023

Technique:mixed-media drawing on smooth Fabriano paper, 220 g/m²

Dimensions:  33 x 48 cm

Concept: The first fall is the descent into material experience. The second is the fall of every constructed identity, of every persona through which we attempt to define ourselves. It is the shattering of illusion that allows the reality of what we already are to emerge.

There is no sacrifice, immolation or loss in the drop that recognises its own oceanic nature. When the time is right, let the heat that melts the wings be welcomed: with them, the distances created by the mind and its conditioning also dissolve.

ICARUS | ICON is an act to be undertaken without tears, regret or compulsion. It represents the joyful relinquishment of self-construction: not the destruction of being, but the surrender of the separate image the individual has created of themselves.

The second fall thus becomes a conscious offering: letting fall what we believe ourselves to be, so that what we have always been may reveal itself.