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Baptism of Icarus - A green standing figure raises one arm beside a white wing-like form against blue, red, and black horizontal bands.

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Baptism of Icarus

2026-03-16

Medium
acrylic on canvas
Size
approx. 24 × 36 in

Role: primary_artwork

Raw title: The Baptism of Icarus

Aliases: The Baptism of Icarus, baptismoficarus

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Recall

A boxer stands beside a shed wing, caught between victory pose, fall, and transfiguration. The piece turns athletic triumph into mythic exposure, as if the body has survived flight but not escaped its cost.

Song Pair

Geese - Au Pays du Cocaine

Visual Text

No visible text indexed.

Source

source filename: baptismoficarus.heic
site image: art-021-the-baptism-of-icarus.jpg

Tags

Visible

boxer 16wings / flying 9figure 52fear 10resolve 14myth 6strange 12Christian 10−hand

Colors

blueredblackgreen

Subjects

Muhammad Ali

Part of

Boxer / Ring / Hero-BodyChristian / Witness / Exposure

Connectedness #20 of 128 · rarest tags: myth

Manual Priority Evidence

  • boxer (!?)
  • wing (!!!)
  • blue (!)
  • mythic figure (!!)
  • transformation (!)
  • transfiguration (!!)
  • fall and ascent (!!!)
  • black (!!)
  • red (!)
  • green (!)
  • green skin (!)

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Song Pairing: Geese - Au Pays du Cocaine

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