I’m intrigued by the concept of flying . . . I’m fascinated with dreams of flying, people flying, as well as birds, winged insects, and other flying creatures. For a long period as a child, I had so many dreams where I could soar over continents, oceans, through time, –even about “mundane” flying, such as hovering up the stairs and across the rooms– that I was convinced I could actually fly when I was awake.
I have an interest in transformation; I’m intrigued by the mystical. As a painter, printmaker, writer and teacher, more and more I find that my art reflects my journey and growth –including my compulsive interest in flying– as I attempt to make connections and gain understandings.
Consider some of these quotes on flying:
“I still fly a lot in my dreams, she told us, but I try to stay close to the ground. At my age, a fall can be pretty serious.”
~Brian Andreas, since 2020 legally changed to Kai Andreas Skye (1956- ), American writer, artist, publisher, speaker, author of Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas; all new work is published under Flying Edna
“What if I fall?”
“Oh, my darling, what if you fly?”
~J. M. Barrie (1860-1937), Scottish novelist and playwright, creator of Peter Pan
“Come over here, we say – to the edge, we say. I want to show you something, we say. We are afraid, they say; it’s very exciting, they say. Come to the edge, we say, use your imagination. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die in our beds. They to go and to die howsoever, inspiring those who come after them to come to their own edge. And fly.”
~Robert Fulghum (1937- ), American Unitarian Universalist minister and writer, author of All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she’d fly.”
~Jeffrey Eugenides (1960-), American novelist and short story writer, author of The Virgin Suicides
“I have brought up several hundred young bees this spring and given them lessons for their first flight, but I haven’t come across another one that was as pert and forward as you are. You seem to be an exceptional nature.”
~Waldemar Bonsels (1880-1952), German writer, author of The Adventures of Maya the Bee
“If there’s any other message in this to readers, it’s in these two characters as icons of hope, that it doesn’t make any difference where you come from, or where you went to school, or who you are, there’s hope. That a kid from Jersey with Superman as the icon that kept him alive for years would one day end up writing the character is as absolutely unlikely as it is utterly inevitable. And if that’s true for me, it’s true for you, if you follow your dreams and your passions in full flight. Don’t give up. No Limits. It’s never too late to learn to fly.”
~ J. Michael Straczynski (1954-) American filmmaker and comic book writer
“You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher
“Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.”
~ Leon Brown (1949-), American major league outfielder
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”
~ Paul McCartney (1942- ), English singer, songwriter, musician
“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
~ C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), British scholar, lay theologian, novelist, including author of The Chronicles of Narnia
Pictured: Learning to Fly, 2022, watercolor, 30″x 22″, framed to approximately 40″x 32″, 2000.
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