Green Roses Bloom for Icarus

<p>Throughout <em>Green Roses Bloom for Icarus</em> the mythic Icarus is the floating signifier of desire</p><p>that circulates among us and whose meaning and value fluctuate arbitrarily. Thus Icarus is the</p><p>superseded superstar the haunting specter and the symptom of our collective disease like a</p><p>randomly floating coronavirus particle. Icarus is also a bad penny (or its flipside corroded</p><p>obverse) a flipped bird an obscene signifier-hermaphroditic diva and graffiti scrawl.</p><p>To extricate ourselves from the circuitry of desire that the fall of Icarus catalyzed we celebrate</p><p>the green rose the symbol of emerging art in James Joyce's <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young</em></p><p><em>Man.</em> Celebration converts the green of copper corrosion of self-corrupting envy into the green</p><p>of lyric seabloom and redemptive hope. Thus Icarus plunges into the sea of green roses only to</p><p>be resurrected endlessly.</p>