Art21 Janine Antoni Video Response

In Janine Antoni's video I liked the personal aspect of her work. I like how she used her body to create the works and her personal connections to the rope. My two favorite works were when she walked across the horizon and the raw-hide sculpture. The part where she tight-roped across the horizon of her childhood was I felt very entertaining and a beautiful idea; to walk across something so intangible yet it looked realistic, I found it very intriguing. The raw-hide sculpture I found interesting in the way that it was in the shape of a person and the skin of a cow with the person imitating the cow. To feel what it's like to be in another creature's skin, literally, puts you closer to that animal, it makes a connection. Also, the fact that it was hollow showing that both the cow and the person are no longer present, it is just a skin, yet retains the shape, gives it that empty feeling yet a sense of what it is and what is used to be. My favorite part of Antoni's work over all is the way that she uses her body to create the art, which gives it a personal and human feeling and connects artist with artwork.