fantastic

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Nice artwork!!! Your Aphrodite is very beautiful!!!

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Fabulous!

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Double Venus on the half shell and reality. Love the way you use art. I don't quite get the water logged selfie stick and camera though.

I like my images to be made of trickery and for a detail to be revealing of it. The dress that my Venus wears makes her a double character, because she is borrowed from another character in the painting: one of the three Horae or Hours, Greek minor goddesses of the seasons and of other divisions of time, and attendants of Venus. The floral decoration of her dress suggests she is the Hora of Spring. She stands in a contrapposto pose, similarly to Venus as she seems relaxed and joyful that Venus has arrived. This duplicity means that we do not know whether her gestures show that she is undressing or getting dressed. Similarly, her two hands also hesitate between hiding and showing. This character is both a decoy and a revelation in my image: the guarantee of the model work of art is literally submerged by the excess of eroticism of this mise en abyme of the naked body in my image. The rising waters are not there to destroy the painting, I love works of art too much to let that be thought, what will be drowned is the mimesis (the concern for resemblance to the model) which fades as a pretext for the nude and which transforms the spectator's fascination into voyeurism. The selfie stick here is a kind of submarine periscope. It is a commentary on the flood of images of naked female bodies that invade the networks for no other reason, and of which this image is a part, so it is also an awareness on my part.

Great idea and composition. I really appreciate your inclusion of that floral fabric pattern. That also helps to link to the Botticelli.

the floral fabric is a texture that I recreated from a borrowing of the pattern of the dress in the painting, which is why it seems well integrated. Thank you very much for your comments.