🏛️ Architecture & Design May 26, 2026 · Rachel Paese

19: Triumph’s End

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19: Triumph’s End
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Triumph’s End24 x 24 inchesOil on canvas2025



I am, I now realize, nearing the end of this exploration. Narratives unpacked, etymologies revealed, a story deconstructed, unpacked, reimagined.



So many ups and downs in the studio. So many ups and downs in this story.



Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew, Jack Gilbert writes in Failing and Flying.




I believe Icarus was not failing as he fell 



but just coming to the end of his triumph.




I am thinking about the flight from the

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