On the wall of the new downtown Portland cocktail bar from the restaurant group Sesame Collective, a green and pink, seemingly abstract rug hangs above an olive green tufted banquette. The piece, by artist Tori Wheeler, is actually a portrait of Icarus, the Greek mythological son of Daedelus who fell from the sky due to his own hubris. Wheeler scanned a painted depiction of Icarus to create a thermal heat map, and then adjusted the colors to match the bar, named for the same cocky fictional figure. The piece is bright, kaleidoscopic, silly, with glow-in-the-dark touches for when the lights dim late in the evening. How fitting, for a
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