In this work, Richard sought to retell a story. In his version of the Icarus myth, as Icarus crashes into the sea, his abandoned masculine ego is met with the...
In this work, Richard sought to retell a story. In his version of the Icarus myth, as Icarus crashes into the sea, his abandoned masculine ego is met with the traditionally archetypal feminine energy of water. In this elemental resurrection, Icarus is reclaimed and recast from the sea as a moon goddess. In stacked curves and shapes reaching upwards and outwards, masculine and feminine forms meet in a timeless shape of a crescent arc. Richard Stone says “In this third work I’ve made about the mythological Icarus, I’m again retelling the story. In my version, as Icarus’ crashes into the sea, his abandoned masculine ego, is met with the traditionally feminine energy of water. In this elemental resurrection, Icarus is reclaimed as a moon goddess. Sculptural forms meeting in the timeless shape of a crescent arc.”
