Ice Phoenix

Everyone needs a certain amount of hope and fantasy.

Maybe that is why people are so fascinated by flying creatures, such as birds.

The exquisitely designed flying machines.

While watching the movie ‘The Dig’, I heard a story about a nightingale which sang alongside the music played by cellist Beatrice Harrison, in Surrey garden. Twenty years after its its first broadcast through BBC radio, people went back to the garden and recorded the song of the nightingale once again. It was in the middle of World War Two. The birds sang again, and it was recorded (though not broadcasted for security reasons) with the sound of the bombers at the background.

Why is this story so powerful ?
Why did people invest so much time, energy and money to catch the sound of the bird, using the best of the technology of the time, during the war ?

Everyone needs a certain amount of hope, a miracle.

I think that is what the nightingale did to people.

Since childhood, I was always fascinated by birds, but also very much frightened by them.

As a child, I was always so charmed by small, flying creatures such as butterflies and birds, especially hummingbirds.
The closer I stare at them, I felt like each organism represents a whole world, because there were just so much to discover.
I also felt like they were forms of souls, that they were a bridge between the living and the dead.
So I always loved finding stories about superstitions with birds and butterflies, and the biological organism.

The more I study the anatomy of birds, I realise every organ and mechanism was designed for them to fly - as if their entire reason for being is to fly.
Almost as if the God wanted them to be flying machines.

Collecting images of the phoenix from wall paintings of the old kings’ tombs, and from folk paintings, I created a new version of the bird. An ‘Ice Phoenix’.
A fierce warrior, yet with a tender heart.

Purposes of the flying machines ?

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