“And Yet to Take Flight – The Immanence of Transcendence”

GIF animation and mechanical object design, aluminium construction, medicine blister packs, stitching, 440 cm,  2025

The desire to live and create fully despite illness and limitations. Wings made from consumed medicine blister packs — referencing the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as well as Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machines — become a metaphor for the artist’s resilient drive toward transcendence and self‑realization. Illness is not an ending here, but an impulse to create something new.

The work visualizes the duality of human existence: the body, bound to the ground, and the spirit, longing to be free. It reveals the fragility and dependency of the body (represented by the wheelchair and mechanical wings), but also the strength and will of the spirit to overcome boundaries. Wings made from consumed medicine blister packs — referencing the myth of Daedalus and Icarus as well as Leonardo’s flying machines — serve as a metaphor for the artist’s unyielding effort toward transcendence and self‑realization.