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Of course I had heard of the Venus of Willendorf some years ago already thru the earlier mentioned Jan van Heemst and the likes, but it wasn’t until I had bought the BBC series How Art Made The World that I was actually fully alive to the fact that at one point in time (approx 25.000 years ago) some crazy ass human being had figured ‘why not make an image of something?’. This image became the characteristic fat lady that must have seemed yummie to the cavemen of her time.

In the now it seems the bodies of human beings and the way they are portrayed can sell practically everything. Sex naturally sells all, but American Apparel seems to have captured just the eighties-Bret Easton Ellis-manically depressed-coked up-disappear here-type sexual flow one needs to be selling apparel nowadays. Just to span the entire iconographic history of how humanity thus looks at female sexuality I made ‘Venus’ the new model for Terry Richardson’s or Merlin Bronques’ (mentioned earlier on this site) photographs.

Check out the results on the backsides of the upcoming some issues of local queer punk zine Her Dick, where my Austrian Appearance® (Willendorf, the site our fat bottomed Venus was first found in 1908 is situated in Austria) seems to have found a home for now.