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Harty Triptych
2012



1



caution not
that pigs might fly

for here

in 1909
one did




2



Icarus

the spirit
of adventure

‘no man’ –

as the prophet said
– ‘soars too high

if he soars

with his own
wings’




3



eyes
through time

have seen

and minds
have marvelled

at this thing

a bird
in flight

great wings

riding
the breeze

and somewhere

between the dream
and invention

the suggestion

of impossible
freedoms



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Notes
This work is carved into two resting points by sculptor Alun Heslop located on a RSPB nature reserve at Harty on the Isle of Sheppey, famous for its Marsh Harriers. The same landscape was a site - during the early twentieth century - for flights by pioneering aviators. In 1909, J.T.C. Moore-Brabazon took a piglet named Icarus on the first one mile flight in a heavier-than-air flying machine

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
– Lord Kelvan, President of the Royal Society, 1895


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