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Madonna has spoken about her new NFT collection, created in partnership with Beeple creator Mike Winklemann, which features a nude animated version of the singer giving birth to various forms of nature.“When Mike and I decided to collaborate on this project a year ago, I was excited to have the opportunity to share my vision of the world as a mother and an artist with Mike’s own unique point of view”, Madonna says in a statement accompanying the collection.“It’s been an amazing journey building this together from an intellectual idea to an emotional story, giving birth to art. I wanted to investigate the concept of creation, not only the way a child enters the world through a woman’s vagina, but also the way an artist gives birth to creativity”.In an interview with Winklemann she adds: “It’s not often a robot centipede crawls out out of my vagina”.I’m sure you’ll be glad to hear that.

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Madonna has collaborated with digital artist Mike Winklemann, who goes by the name of Beeple, on a series of controversial videos which she claims depict her "giving birth".She appeared nude in a total of three videos, which revealed butterflies, flowers, centipedes and even a tree emerging from a 3D scan of her vagina.Some followers have slammed the star, who has hit the headlines numerous times this year for her series of increasingly raunchy Instagram posts, for being "desperate for attention".However Madonna has hit back that she is merely "doing what women have been doing since the beginning of time, which is giving birth".She added to bemused onlookers: "On a more existential level, I’m giving birth to art and creativity and we would be lost without both."The 63-year-old shared a behind-the-scenes look at the creative process with Beeple, as she prepared to appear as part of his Mother of Creation art collection.After declaring earnestly that it was important for "a lot of thought and attention" to go into the creation of the videos, she decided: "I say we need a forest with creepy crawly bugs coming out of me."She then very accurately observed: "Not often does a robot centipede crawl out of my vagina!"The end product included a video of Madonna giving birth to a tree while encased inside a glass box."My journey through life as a woman is like that of a tree," she narrated during the clip by way of explanation."Starting with a small seed, always pushing against the resistance of the Earth.The endless weight of gravity."In a second video, she is spread atop a truck with her legs open wide while butterflies cascade out of her.This art piece was described as: "the metamorphosis journey of butterflies, which are one of