Flight has occupied Satish Gupta’s imagination from an early age - as a lived and complex reality. The loss of his father in an air crash when he was four and a half years old left an imprint that quietly shaped how height, movement, and vulnerability came to be understood. In this work, flight is neither metaphor nor escape; it is a condition marked by risk, memory, and restraint. The sculpture takes form in copper, its surface partially gilded with gold. The contrast is deliberate. Copper anchors the work in gravity and mass, while gold introduces light without promising transcendence. The figure occupies an unsettled middle ground - suspended, attentive, and measured. Rather than retelling the myth of Icarus, Gupta distills its underlying tension. To rise is to carry awareness of falling. The work holds this fragile equilibrium without resolving it. Icarus does not mourn loss, nor does it celebrate flight. It stays with the space between the two - where memory sharpens awareness, and movement continues only through balance. What remains is beyond a cautionary tale, a quiet proposition: endurance lies not in ascent, but in knowing how to stay aloft.