A piece by Riley Black bidding farewell to a park in the current issue of Sierra magazine (https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-2-summer/eyewitness/arches-national-park-one-last-day-utah-slickrock) has a reference I don't understand. What is a "Venus outline" as in "If there weren’t so many other hikers at Double O Arch, I would have thrown off my clothes and left a Venus outline in the cool, orange sediment."
I've a bad habit of trying to understand what I read. Accordingly I searched the web for "venus outline". This is what was returned:
A free image by Design Circle from freepik.com (www.freepik.com/icon/venus_983300) is what I'll associate with the term. Did the writer intend to create a similar image to generate a theory about aliens leaving a symbol of their planet?
On the other hand, given that the writer is referred to as "she" is "Venus outline" a sly mirrored reference to guys "writing their names in the snow"?
