Daedalus, 2024

182 x 28 x 32 cm

Daedalus explores portraiture beyond the likeness of a single sitter, using imagination and mythology to reflect on memory, invention, loss, and the unfolding of a life.

I was drawn to Daedalus as the mythical architect, inventor, and master craftsman: a figure suspended between contemplation and creation, between what has been and what might still become. The sculpture incorporates fragments from different moments in his story: the labyrinth, the tower, the making of the wings, and a small figure of Icarus falling through the air, inscribed into the bronze surface itself.

These elements are not intended as literal illustrations, but as traces held within the form, inviting the viewer to discover them gradually over time. The textured surface and blue-green patina were developed to evoke both sky and sea, as though Daedalus is looking outward from confinement towards distance, possibility, and uncertainty.

Although rooted in mythology, the work is ultimately concerned with something deeply human: reflection, resilience, ambition, regret, and the tension between responsibility and freedom.

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