INSPIRATION

[] //Cai Guo-Qiang// []

mixed media art: coffee as paint (Filipino artist Sunshine Plata uses coffee as paint in Manila) []
 * Brookee:**

// __Artist:__ Janine Antoni // // __Title:__ // Lick and Lather // __Media:__ Soap and Chocolate // // __Video:__ http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/mediaplayer/videoplayer.cgi?playeraddress=videoplayer.cgi;media=%2Fart21%2FJA2_video_lo.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FJA2_video_hi.rm%2C%2Fart21%2FJA2_video_lo.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FJA2_video_hi.mov%2C%2Fart21%2FJA1_video_lo.wmv%2C%2Fart21%2FJA1_video_hi.wmv;title=%22Touch%22%20tightrope%20video%20by%20Janine%20Antoni;widescreen=true;playertemplate=%2Fart21%2FTemplates%2Fart21_mp.html // __//Explanation://__ "I wanted to work with the tradition of self-portraiture but also the classical bust. So the way I made it is I took a mold directly from my body. I used a product called alginate, which is the kind of material that you might be familiar with when you go to the dentist. That sort of minty tasting stuff. It’s an incredible product because it gets every detail, every little pore. I even casted my hair. So I started with an exact replica and then I carved the classical stand. I made a mold, melted down thirty-five pounds of chocolate, poured it into the mold, and when I took it out of the mold I resculpted my image by licking the chocolate. So you can see that I licked up the front and through the mouth up onto the nose, over the eye and back up over the ear onto the bun and then down in the back around the neck. I also casted myself into soap. She started as an exact replica of myself. We spent a few hours in the tub together. I slowly washed her down and she becomes almost fetal because all her features start to be washed away. So I was thinking about how one describes the self and feeling a little uncomfortable with my outer surface as the description of myself. And this piece very much is about trying to be on the outside of myself and have a relationship with my image. So the process is quite loving. Of course chocolate is a highly desirable material and to lick myself in chocolate is a kind of tender gesture. Having the soap in the tub was like having a little baby in there. But through that process I’m slowly erasing myself. For me it really is about this kind of love-hate relationship we have with our physical appearance." //Picture://
 * Carolyn**

__Artist:__ Maurice Bennett __Medium:__ Toast []
 * Jackie:**