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 * [[image:BOOKITYBOOKLARGEIMAGE.jpg width="448" height="295" caption=""bookity book" | ceramic, mixed metals, concrete, paint | 15”H x 14”W x 11”D"]] || [[image:bookitybookentire_image.jpg width="231" height="243"]] ||

The Story of Icarus (ancient Greek myth) The myth was about this man and his son Icarus. They try to escape from Crete using these wings that the father made. One day they decide to escape. The father tells Icarus NOT to fly to close to the sun or else the glue that kept the feathers together will melt and the feathers will fall out. So Icarus says: Okay! and they set off. As they were flying, Icarus is like: Hey! This is fun! I want to see how high I can go! So he goes and flies up to the sun. He flies away from the father's view, and soon the father begins to worry where Icarus has gone off to. Shortly after, a body kind of falls out of the sky. The body was Icarus's. The feathers were falling everywhere and so that's how the father knew he had lost his son, Icarus. picture from:http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSaYZdEOuynIIQqj8ARM1sKJfKaaJn5Wzp0br3ZnTn-OVtHBN6PRg

Icarus represents our desire, you ignore warnings and our issues and to just follow our inner desires. However, there are consequences to any action. We can not simply disregard responsibilities or warnings that those who are wiser than us have given to us. This picture Icarus falling to his death because of his ignorance. And this figure will suffer the same fate, if he continues down this path. Hoi, Amy. //Icarus Falling//. .

=Zack Hilliard= The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus, seems to be presented in this work. The reason is that the work depicts a man who seems to be trying to get away from the horse that is underneath it. The story of Icarus and Daedalus relates to this painting as well because of the idea that they are attempting to escape from the island which has been thei prison, but also their home, which is what is seemingly present in this sculpture. This idea is here because the man has a pained expression on his face (like all of Zed's works) which seems to add to the effect that he is attempting to do something extremely hard. What seems to be his task is doing //something// to the horse that is beneath him. It looks like an arduos task for him to complete because it seems to be something that he knows very well, and he does not want to do whatever he is suppossed to do to it.This is also like the idea that Icarus has only known the island/maze that he has lived on for his entire life, and eve though they want freedom, it is hard because the only thing that he has every known is the labrynth. This also seems to be why tIcarus does not obey his father because he knows not of the dangers of flying to high, like Daedalus does. The idea is presented in the work because it appears that the man does not know the consequences of his actions, so he has proceeded to do it, but since this is all he seems to have known, that is the reason for the pained expression on his face. As well as his seemingly unwillingness to not perform the action that he is suppossed to follow through with.

**Arghya Samantaray**
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance inventor, scientist, anatomist, sculptor, and humanist among many other things. From a young age, Leonardo questioned the world around him, and his queries led him to want to understand the structure of everything. Anatomy of living beings was thus a viable hobby for the polymath. The "Renaissance Man" not only studied and drew the physical structures of humans, but also that of many animals, including horses (//Study of Horse// from Leonardo's journals now located at Royal Library in Windsor Castle in Berkshire, England). As he studied the structure of things, da Vinci also looked for ways to improve the status of life for humans upon the world. To this goal, he invented many new and exciting contraptions for humans to achieve 'super-human' goals such as flying. As seen in his blueprint sketch, now located at the // Institute de France // in Paris, the inventor created the idea of human powered flight, much like the // Myth of Icarus //.