Why People Can't Fly
Author: Vasily Klyukin
Collection: Earth2050
Height: 10 meters
Material: Mixed media, LED, worldwide plastic garbage
The ten-meter sculpture of a man who is prevented from taking off by 8 balloons filled with plastic garbage was created using modern lighting technologies. The garbage for this monument was collected by volunteers from 150 countries of the world, after the author Vasily Klyukin told about his new idea. According to the sculptor, the pollution of the planet Earth is a new eighth sin that predetermines the problems of all mankind.
This person is myself, with the burden of my problems and worries, — Vasily Klyukin comments on his work.
— I can’t take off, despite all the achievements of science and technology. I can’t take off spiritually: obligations and inner immaturity pull me. I’m not the only one, everyone is pulled down by something: someone has financial problems, someone has domestic problems, someone else has their own. All of humanity as a whole and each
one individually — we will not be able to take off until we change.
In 2018, the sculpture «Why people can’t fly» with a height of 3 meters was presented at the auction «Ocean Gala» in Monaco, dedicated to the fight against pollution of the oceans.
From August 25 to September 2, 2019, the sculpture was exhibited at the legendary festival in the Nevada desert.
“This upside-down man is myself. I, like the majority of us, have a baggage of problems and worries that drag me down. I can’t fly spiritually, as I’m being pulled down by my obligations and my inner immaturity. Seven balloons represent seven sins. The eight balloon is the new sin, unrecognized and the most rapidly consuming — POLLUTION. I can’t control it and this inspires FEAR. But I still have a HOPE that I will decipher the symbols that I encounter on my way. This riddle.»
Vasily Klyukin
Author: Vasily Klyukin
Collection: Earth2050
Height: 10 meters
Material: Mixed media, LED, worldwide plastic garbage
The ten-meter sculpture of a man who is prevented from taking off by 8 balloons filled with plastic garbage was created using modern lighting technologies. The garbage for this monument was collected by volunteers from 150 countries of the world, after the author Vasily Klyukin told about his new idea. According to the sculptor, the pollution of the planet Earth is a new eighth sin that predetermines the problems of all mankind.
This person is myself, with the burden of my problems and worries, — Vasily Klyukin comments on his work.
— I can’t take off, despite all the achievements of science and technology. I can’t take off spiritually: obligations and inner immaturity pull me. I’m not the only one, everyone is pulled down by something: someone has financial problems, someone has domestic problems, someone else has their own. All of humanity as a whole and each one individually — we will not be able to take off until we change.
In 2018, the sculpture «Why people can’t fly» with a height of 3 meters was presented at the auction «Ocean Gala» in Monaco, dedicated to the fight against pollution of the oceans.
From August 25 to September 2, 2019, the sculpture was exhibited at the legendary festival in the Nevada desert.
“This upside-down man is myself. I, like the majority of us, have a baggage of problems and worries that drag me down. I can’t fly spiritually, as I’m being pulled down by my obligations and my inner immaturity. Seven balloons represent seven sins. The eight balloon is the new sin, unrecognized and the most rapidly consuming — POLLUTION. I can’t control it and this inspires FEAR. But I still have a HOPE that I will decipher the symbols that I encounter on my way. This riddle.»
Vasily Klyukin