Janine Antoni can probably be best classified as a crazy person trapped in an artist body. Many of her pieces deal with a love hate relationship between either her and the object or the object and the viewer. Some of her more famous working involves copying herself or using herself in the piece then altering it in some way. In the piece "Lick and Lather" she created 2 busts of herself, one made from chocolate and the other from soap, and uses them to either eat or bathe with. The more she eats the chocolates the more it is destroyed. The same with the soap. The more she uses it the less the bust looks like her. In one of her pieces she was covered in some kind of sheet then had the sheet covered in a hardening agent that produced a raggedy copy of her an all four. By doing this she created a ghost effect that is both like and unlike her in many ways. One of her most famous pieces is "Loving Care" in which she paints an entire floor using the hair on her head. The continual use of her body for her artwork has made her stand out because of the deep connection she has created with each piece of work that she does.
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