How To Hope: From Toxic Alchemy Emergent Beauty

In myth, Venus was spawned from the frothing sea into which Cronus had tossed the testicles of his father Uranus. Family violence gives birth to the goddess of love and beauty.

17 sounds by Jonatha Chance rendered with the Hanx Electrix virtual typewriter with Hanx Writer app: “The planet Venus / starlet of the dawn and dusk / shimmering weirdness // Sunrise in the west / retrograde rotation with / days longer than years // Her caress hell hot / from noxious greenhouse gases / renders us enthralled” | Copyright © 2025 CC-BY-NC-ND (4.0 International)

The Birth of Venus (after Botticelli) conjured by Christine Newton Bush with generative AI on Substack. | Copyright © 2025 CC-BY-NC-ND (4.0 International)