3/9/11- Janine Anoti

Janine Anoti is not the weirdest artist I've explored, but she is kind of out there in a really good way. She uses many different types of mixed media to show her amazing talent to the world. She uses Chocolate, Soap, electric cords, fabric, yarn, paint, photography, and so much more to create her master pieces.

What inspires her is the freedom that new things bring, and the idea of role reversal, but really I have no clue where she draws her inspiration from. She has a cow drinking out of a bathtub that she is in in her piece entitled EUREKA. It is the role reversal one. it looks like the cow is drinking from her breast actually.

Her piece Lick and Lather made up of 14 portrait busts, cast of a model of herself and mounted on look-a-like ancient classical pedestals. Seven statues were cast in white soap, and the other seven in brown chocolate, and then reshaped by the rather subjective acts which licking it over and over again, and with the frothing up of bubbles from her spit, foam-in one statue, the features were completely erased.