“Icarus” and Camélia

Icarus and Camelia

While I was waiting for a Washington University architect lecture, I sketched myself in the arms of a loving woman. My twenties were odd in that I was surrounded by friends and girlfriends, but horribly lonely and questing. “Icarus” is the name I assign myself in self-portraiture, curious and prodigal, but fragile and lost. Icarus often is depicted wearing a backward Chicago Bulls cap, as I had often done in my early twenties. Icarus was the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, an inventor who built wings that Icarus misused and crashed to the sea after venturing too close to the sun. The name De Vlieger means “son of the flyer”. “Camélia” is my imago, the personification of the ideal mate for Icarus. The words at left read “In love with the Indian woman, I like Indian ladies, I miss Camélia, my Shanthi” in Italian and Spanish. The sketch was done very rapidly. Produced 21 April 1997, five dozen seventh phase (Nixaþ-Asmaral Xrga).

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