“My period of indecision is over – I am going West… It came quietly – naturally… the country seems to call one in a way that one has to answer it.”

- Georgia O’Keeffe on moving to New Mexico

Janine Antoni

“My work has always focused on the body and how it exists in the world; how it makes meaning. It’s an exploration of what it means to be female; it’s important to claim that."

"Our bodies physically store our memories. We are the history of our lives, so to be in touch with one’s body is to have access to those memories.”

“We treat our bodies as a vehicle to transport our thinking minds. I’ve been on a journey to embodiment. I want to enter my body, to trust it. I want to make sculptures that talked about that experience. Making this work has been a way to externalize a bodily understanding. Making has been a form of healing.”

All works and quotes from Janine Antoni

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. ”

― Alvin Toffler

on my mind today....

" Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. "

1. Head, Heart by Maria Kalman
2. Floating. Shirin Neshat with Sussan Deyhim, Logic of the Birds. 2001
3+4. Dewey Nielsen. His videos (and instagram) are full of gems. He's very generous with what he puts out there. Take a look.
5. Friedrich Nietzsche quote.
6. found here.