The sculpture references the story of Aphrodite’s birth as described by Hesiod in the Theogony. The genitals of Uranus, severed by Cronus’s sickle at Gaia’s instigation, fell into the sea, and from the white foam surrounding them the goddess of beauty emerged. Set into a male head carved from white Pińczów limestone is a conch shell that lends the work a phallic character. From it cascade torrents of pearls and strings threaded with small cowrie shells — once a widely used means of exchange. The shells in Okoński’s work carry multiple layers of symbolism, simultaneously combining masculine and feminine elements, and their accumulation into entangled, dynamic forms resonates with the dynamics of power, violence, feminine force, and the wresting of that force from the patriarchal father present in the invoked myth.