As the Greek goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite was not only a deity of sexual love but of affection and all the impulses that underpin social life. There are two versions of her origin. As Aphrodite Urania, or Celestial Aphrodite, she sprung from Uranos alone. When Cronus castrated Uranos with a sickle, he flung Uranos' genitals into the sea near Cythera where they floated amid white foam (aphros in Greek). Inside this divine flesh the goddess was nurtured, and from this the Greeks named her Aphrodite, "she who came from the foam".

This photo consists of two pictures combined by making paper negatives of both images onto a single print, then making another paper negative of this to return it to it positive. This has the effect of keeping the lighter colours on top (a bit like the lighten mode in photoshop only a lot more time consuming)