🏛️ Architecture & Design May 12, 2026 · Rachel Paese

17: Solar Complex

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17: Solar Complex
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Solar ComplexOil on canvas30 x 17 inches2025



An Icarus Complex is a psychiatric classification characterized by extreme ambition, high-risk behavior, and recklessness. To be Icarian is to be excessively ambitious. Foolhardy. Possibly (probably) to some extent delusional.



Once upon a time, this was called a Solar Complex. (Which sounds like a utility farm.) 



Although the idea of converting sunlight into electricity feels right, somehow. Moth seeks flame. Man seeks fame. 



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