Icarus to the heat melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms, and so Icarus fell into the sea and drowned in the area which today bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos. Hellenistic writers give euhemerising variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. Heracles erected a
The Wax Girl The Wax Girl The Wax Girl is a Canadian post-rock project founded by Toronto-based producer and composer Alex Wright, in 2012. In January 2012, Wright began writing and recording cinematic demos as a creative outlet. Wright explained in an interview in 2014 that he initially used the moniker "The Wax Girl" out of necessity for categorizing his demos, and that the name first entered his mind after rearranging the letters of his own name. As Wright continued to write and record music, he realized that he wanted to further pursue developing his body of work, and the name stuck around.