04: Shadow Box

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Flare up like a flame, wrote Rilke,and make big shadows I can move in.

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05: Waxing

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.

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19: Triumph’s End

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18: Perspective

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17: Solar Complex

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