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The Birth of Penis by Karen Chappelow

49x90cm Acrylic on stretched canvas ready to hang

The Birth of Venus by Botticelli represents the rebirth of civilisation, new hope, geopolitical and social culture shift after the tumultuous Middle Ages. She was born a naked goddess, set adrift in a scallop shell to Cyprus. Venus was birthed from the spray (yep that kind) from Uranus’s genitals, ripped from him by Kronos and tossed into the ocean.

She is the epitome of beauty and some have said Neoplatonic love. This divine love first elicited from physical beauty, then lifts the mind to divine love. The painting also references the Baptism of Christ by Leonardo da Vinci and Verrochio. It has also been said that Venus, after landing on earth and having been given a robe, becomes a mortal. She may even be the Madonna and thus the personification of the Christian church.

In my depiction I have melded the two representations together to prove that Jesus was a woman (hehehe).

The excerpts on the open bible include a retelling of Colossians and a well-known verse from the Book of Armaments – The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

Then did he raise on high the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch, saying, “Bless this, O Lord, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.” And the people did rejoice and did feast upon the lambs and toads and tree-sloths and fruit-bats and orangutans and breakfast cereals