Hannah Stewart.Critical discourse,contextualisation & ideasdevelopment.

Icarus Was

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141 This selection of small publications is intended to provide a for-malised environment for ideas development and critical reflection.This is one of the first editions ,the methodology is unfamiliar tome,however the process is already aiding my practice,providing mewith collated material which although fixed when printed,is easilydisseminated in its digital format and dividing lines between differentprojects.

Musee des Beaux Arts W.H. Auden

About suffering they were never wrong,The Old Masters; how well, they understoodIts human position; how it takes placeWhile someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waitingFor the miraculous birth, there always must beChildren who did not specially want it to happen, skatingOn a pond at the edge of the wood:They never forgotThat even the dreadful martyrdom must run its courseAnyhow in a corner, some untidy spotWhere the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horseScratches its innocent behind on a tree.In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns awayQuite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman mayHave heard the splash, the forsaken cry,But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shoneAs it had to on the white legs disappearing into the greenWater; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seenSomething amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

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The Fall of Icarus, 1555 by Pieter Bruegal

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Pronunciation: (ik'ur-us, ī'kur-), [key]—n.1. Also,Ikaros. Class. Myth.a youth who attempted to escape from Cretewith wings of wax and feathers but flew so high that his wings meltedfrom the heat of the sun, and he plunged to his death in the sea.

Sea= sea saltIf he plunged to his death in the sea it is feasible for him to be soaked insaline solution, christaline in the sun and turned to salt, preserved foreverin his humiliated state

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