Adri de Vries Tadema
Vrouwenparochie, Netherlands
Daedalus,
an architect and builder, created a Labyrinth for King Minos to contain the
Minotaur (half man, half bull). But Daedalus,and his son, Icarus were
imprisoned in the palace of Knossos, Crete, by King Minos because Daedalus had
given Minos’ daughter, Ariadne a clew (a ball of string) to help Theseus (who
was Minos’ enemy) defeat the Minotaur.
Daedalus
attempted to escape with Icarus by making two pairs of wings from wax and
feathers. Daedalus told Icarus not to fly too high or too low because the sun
would melt his wings and the sea would make his wings damp. But Icarus was
exhilarated with the thrill of flying, and, ignoring his fathers’ warnings,
carelessly flew higher and higher. The sun melted the wax on his wings. Icarus
kept flapping his wings but realized too late that all his feathers had gone
and he was only flapping his bare arms. The boy fell into the sea and drowned.
Techniques used: crochet, nunofelting (pants),
painting, spinning.
