Wings

The simple use of wings as a motif makes the work almost abstract in the vast range of contexts deriving from it, from the intimate and localized to the universal, cross-cultural and multi-layered.

Three elements are characteristic to the series. First, Maylor fondly calls the wings the “wearable size”, as if they’re made to fit existing individuals. Second, the wings embody a life force, whether left aside, nailed or hanged like meat, remaining very much alive, ready to fly with a small change of circumstance. Thirdly, the wings are fragile, transparent and opaque.

As a universal motif, the Wings express the exalted, the angelic, the spiritual, which by its very essence is sacrificed, crucified with nails to a wooden log, hanged like meat at the butchers. They also represent an expression of the primeval struggle between good and evil, spiritual and corporeal, and the never ending human striving for the sublime.