Icarus (2022) Fotografia da Ianina Ermakova

Who doesn't know the sad story of Icarus?!
Icarus (Greek: Ἴκαρος) — in ancient Greek mythology, the son of Daedalus and the slave Navkrata, known for his unusual death. Many works have been created based on the plot of the legend of Daedalus and Icarus.
To escape from the island of Crete from the irritated Minos, master Daedalus made wings for himself and his son, fastened with wax, and Daedalus asked: "Do not rise too high; the sun will melt the wax. Don't fly too low; the sea water will get on the feathers and they will get wet." But already during the flight to Hellas, Icarus was so carried away by flying that he forgot his father's instructions and rose very high, flying too close to the Sun. The rays of the Sun melted the wax, Icarus fell and drowned near the island of Samos in the sea, which received the name Ikarian in this part. His body, washed ashore by the waves, was buried by Hercules on the small island of Dolichus, named after him Icaria.
The ancient Greeks of the classical and later periods thought that in the form of the myth of Icarus and Daedalus, the memory of the invention of oblique sails was preserved — according to a common interpretation, Daedalus and Icarus escaped from Crete simply on a ship with oblique sails, allowing them to use not only tailwind, but also sidewind and even headwind. Prior to this invention, only straight sails were used. Icarus fell overboard during the voyage and drowned.
To reproduce the story and image of Icarus has been my long-standing desire. The problem was to find a suitable model, so the idea remained only an idea for about a year. And then I was introduced to Isa, who perfectly fit into the image I needed. The shooting was carried out at the Dzerzhinsky sand pits.

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