Inside Icarus, the New Downtown Portland Cocktail Bar Serving Drinks With Hammers and Popping Boba

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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