伊卡洛斯的哀悼

伊卡洛斯的哀悼 Mourning Icarus 2018
油彩 畫布 Oil on canvas, 100 cm X 40 cm

人類通天之路何等的悲壯!失敗者，不再漂浮於雲層之上，而是墜落於遍佈碎石、蒺藜、骸骨的地殼或泥淖，直至死亡沒過頭頂……

【希臘神話丨伊卡洛斯的哀悼】
伊卡洛斯是希臘神話中藝術家代達羅斯的兒子，傳說他在克里特島懷著對家鄉的眷戀，收集大小羽毛用麻線捆住用蠟封牢，縛在身上，如鳥兒一樣飛起來。在飛離克里特島時，因飛得太高，蠟遇太陽融化，羽翼散開，伊卡洛斯跌落大地，後被葬於海島。為了紀念他，埋葬他的海島被命名為伊卡利亞。
（引自《希臘神話》，尼•庫恩著，朱志順譯，上海譯文出版社 2011 年出版。略有增刪。）

How moving and tragic the mankind’s way towards the Celestial is!

[Greek Mythology | Mourning Icarus]
In Crete, Icarus missed home so much that he collected and fixed feathers together in wax to make a pair of wings, with which he flew back home. On his way, he came too close to the sun and fell to earth when the heat melted the wax. In honor of him, the place where he was buried bears his name as Icaria today.

(Editor’s simplified translation from Chinese)