Every feather carries the DNA of flight
Every father dreams and prepares for the moment his child will successfully fly away.
Daedalus, the famous architect and sculptor of King Minos, fed up with all the sacrifices made for the Minotaur, plots with Theseus to kill the monster. As punishment, Minos imprisons the architect and his son Icarus in the labyrinth and blocks the exit. However, in order for them to escape, the ingenious Daedalus fashions two pairs of wings out of feathers and wax for himself and his son. Icarus, fascinated by the beauty of flight and heights, gets too close to the Sun. The god Helios, angered that humans have discovered the secret of flight, melts Icarus’ wings with his heat, and so he crashes into the Aegean and dies.
The moral of the legend: listen to your father’s advice. Don’t imagine you’re better than you are. But there’s another part of the myth you haven’t been told: as well as telling Icarus not to fly too high, Daedalus also instructed his son not to fly too low, too close to the sea, because the water would destroy his wings. Society has altered the myth, encouraging us to forget an important part of it, and created a culture in which we constantly remind each other of the dangers that await us if we rise up and stand out, if we become visible and proud. But it completely ignored a much more common shortcoming: settling for mediocrity.
Alongside their classic shapes and specific colors representing the sky and the earth, the pots included in the Icarus collection are engraved with symbols of the labyrinth and flight.
