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Artist Memo: When I was a little boy, long before I learned how to paint and draw, I remember seeing the image of Venus on a soap package, which I've since learned was painted by Sandro Botticelli (The Birth of Venus, circa 1485, Florence, Uffizi).

I think it was the first erotic image I had encountered. Through a little boy's eyes, I thought a nude female could only be Caucasian with long hair, a long neck, and long body, posing. She stared at me and seemed to say, "Hey, I'm from the sea, I come for you, and I am pretty."

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