Venus figure

You mention in the book that Sojourner Truth is the only woman of color in “The Dinner Party,” and discuss the Venus figure as a deeply racist and misogynist beauty standard.

She has built a twisted counterpart to the Victoria Memorial — a fountain whose jets emerge from the nipples and open jugular of a Venus figure 40 feet up, feeding a basin populated by sailors and sharks.

������ reads as a seed pod in one piece might invoke a chrysalis, womb or ancient Venus figure in others.

Like his other work, the sculptures explore themes related to tool imagery, the Venus figure, hearts and Pinocchio.