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Originally Posted by Kizzy

Have you compared this piece with any fertility idols? Had you you'd see they are nothing alike... nothing.
The Oedipus reference is apt if, as you have done here you see a naked female form and instantly think 'mama'! It says more about you and your thought processes than the artist.
Hmm ...ranty? As in your suggesting my reaction is that if a hysterical female?.. not helping yourself here much TS.

The choice to display a prominent historical female thinker who wrote extensively on modesty, and appreciating the female mind over the female form, as a naked statue that accentuates the genitals and breasts, has clear connotations with "woman as the female form", Earth Mother, a vehicle for reproduction. As I said before - even if it can be interpreted differently - you're not going to convince me that a professional artist didn't anticipate that interpretation and therefore it is a conscious choice. It would be EXACTLY the same if an artist chose to depict a philosopher who talked of the nature of men as a bare-chested bodybuilder with his knob out. It has implications, they are open to interpretation, but are nonetheless deliberate on the part of the artist because they know what they're doing. If the subject is the artist thrmself, or the subject is a knowing participant, that's one thing but in this instance it's botched self-indulgence from the artist.

Your oedipus comments are massively off piste but they're just your attempt at creepy ad-hominem so we'll leave that where it is.