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In Nesting in Deep Time, yearning becomes a question of proximity. For this new series of paintings, Iadevaia collapses various locales, both referential and imaginary, to muddy the binaries between intimacy and estrangement. Lush topiary gardens, ancient bridges, and towering rock formations share the same spatial plane as the New York City skyline, its contours emerging hazily like a mirage from the Emerald City. New landscapes form as the situations get stranger. Raymie’s paintings unfold like a choose-your-own-adventure, a swirling fantasmic soup that evokes as much Piranesi as it does …