Julian Rowe - Visual Artist

julian rowe

visual artist

… the birth of Venus [2022]

Rainer Maria Rilke - The Birth of Venus

And in the chalice of the hips her belly

lay, like some young fruit a child might hold.

And in its navel's little crater-cup

was all the darkness that this life would hold.

Down underneath, a small, light wave was rising,

which lapped constantly on toward the loins,

where now and then there broke a silent ripple.

Translucent though, and still untouched by shadow —

like a stand of birch in April — warm,

and empty and unhidden lay her sex.