His solutions are also traps and his son died of his gift
Resonance
Makers engineers and those who build their own way out
Symbols
The sawThe axeThe wingsThe labyrinthThe plumb line
Mythology Summary
Daedalus is the Athenian craftsman, son of Metion, who killed his nephew Perdix - the boy who had invented the saw - and fled to Crete, where he built the labyrinth, the dancing-floor that Homer names at Knossos (Iliad 18.590-592), and the wooden cow for Pasiphae. He made wings of feathers and wax for himself and Icarus, and Icarus flew too near the sun (Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII.183-235; Apollodorus, Epitome 1). Pausanias, who counts two surviving works of Daedalus in Boeotia and is sceptical about the rest, is the ancient reader who takes the attributions with a grain of salt (9.40.3-4).
Modern Practice
Daedalus is the working figure for craft, for the solution that works, and for the solution that becomes the trap. The practice is the made thing itself: build it, test it, and take responsibility for what it does when someone else uses it. He is called on by makers and not by worshippers, and the offering is the work rather than the prayer.