🏛️ Architecture & Design Mar 24, 2026 · Rachel Paese

10: Precipice

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Precipice24 x 24 inches2025



I have been thinking about Icarus’s father, Daedalus, and about the often persistent impasse between adults and adolescents that is hardly unique to Greek myth. Unspoken rivalries. Complex legacies. A parable of a different sort.



Icarus: Son (sun?) at the center of his father’s universe



Daedalus : Dad, designer, control freak. 



Measure twice, cut once. 



I wonder about the origin of this proverb, and dis

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