Venus of Willendorf NFT

One of the oldest surviving works of art, The Venus of Willendorf is a small limestone sculpture dating from 25-30,000 years ago with exaggerated features, likely denoting an abundance of fertility and child rearing ability, maybe created to be carried as a totem imbuing these gifts on the bearer and used in ceremony to honour a long forgotten fertility deity or mother goddess.

To me, she symbolises a respect for all things fertile and nurturing, honouring the Earth itself. I suspect that the ancients who made her would have a similar appreciation; recognising the interdependence of all life; wise enough to know that the health of their own body, family, tribe and culture was founded on the health of the ecosystem that they were part of.

I hope, in some small way, bringing ‘Venus’ into this digital realm will provide a root/route back to the wisdom of this ‘primitive’ mind-set, even trigger some buried ancestral memory of love for the ultimate nurturer, the Mother of all Life, Gaia.