🏛️ Architecture & Design Mar 17, 2026 · Rachel Paese

09: Hullabaloo

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Polyommatus12 x 12 inchesOil and cold wax on canvas2025



Polyommatus Icarus is known colloquially as the common blue butterfly. Its adult lifespan lasts, on average, two to three weeks. 



A life too brief, like that of its namesake.



A wing not attached to the upper arm but to the … upper lip? Groucho glasses spring briefly to mind. Ovid, after all, described Icarus as something of a goofball. (In his play, Ovid wrote, he hindered his fath

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