🏛️ Architecture & Design Feb 18, 2026 · Rachel Paese

05: Waxing

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Fifteen Pages Old60 x 48 inchesOil and wax on canvas2026



I am finding Icarus references everywhere. He’s a symbol for so much: adventure and aspiration, peril and mishap, the embodiment of recklessness, the fragility of youth.



I’m still stuck on the youth part.



In Raymond Queneau’s absurdist 1968 retelling, Icarus is imagined as a bit of a louche, drinking absinthe in a bar in Paris and hanging with a courtesan named Hélène (phonetically ref

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