Sculpture:<\/p>\n
\u2013 The great Athenian artist, sculptor and architect Daedalus was my father. I speak this way because my first name was not Kite, but Icarus \u2013 the son of Daedalus. My father committed a crime in Athens and therefore had to flee to Crete. The king of Crete welcomed him, but did not want to share his talent with anyone, so he kept him confined in his palace. However, my father Daedalus decided to escape through the air: he made wings from feathers, fastening them together with wax.
Then he said:
\u2013 Icarus, we will fly away from Crete. Be careful! Do not fly too low, or the spray from the waves will soak your wings. And do not fly too close to the sun, because the heat may melt the wax and the feathers will scatter. Follow me and do not fall behind, my son.
We put on our wings of wax and feathers. And we rose into the air. Those who saw us flying thought that gods were soaring through the blue sky.
I loved the speed of the flight. I beat my wings harder and harder. I climbed higher, closer to the sun, leaving my father below.
But suddenly the wax began to melt. Feathers scattered all around me. I fell into the foaming sea.
Among the sculptures of Klaip\u0117da, I am called Kite. And it was not the Greek Daedalus who created me, but the Lithuanian sculptor Romanas Kazlauskas \u2013 a man who knew how to carve light into stone. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sculpture: \u2013 The great Athenian artist, sculptor and architect Daedalus was my father. I speak this way because my first name was not Kite, but Icarus \u2013 the son of Daedalus. My father committed a crime in Athens and therefore had to flee to Crete. The king of Crete welcomed him, but did not want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13362,"template":"","lankytinu_lokacijos":[],"lankytinu_tipai":[435],"class_list":["post-11146","ka_pamatyti","type-ka_pamatyti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","lankytinu_tipai-talking-sculptures-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ka_pamatyti\/11146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ka_pamatyti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ka_pamatyti"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lankytinu_lokacijos","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lankytinu_lokacijos?post=11146"},{"taxonomy":"lankytinu_tipai","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedon.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lankytinu_tipai?post=11146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}