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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Janine Antoni: Milagros]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, a lot of people don't know
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the coccyx looks like,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but really, it's the site of our severed tail.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love the cup of the sacrum and the cup of the hand,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as if they're about to shake hands.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is a very unusual--and impossible--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coming together of two body parts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The whole idea around this work was really about grafting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you graft one plant to another,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then they fuse together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For years, I've been fascinated with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these things called 'milagros'.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're found in Portugal,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Spain, in Mexico,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The ones that people are most familiar with are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these small medallions that are shaped like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an arm, or a leg,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or a heart.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But they also have them in three dimensions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The way they're used is that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you have an ailment--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you have a problem with your foot--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you would go and buy one of these,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'd take it to the church.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They hang them on the ceilings of the church,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so the entire ceiling is filled with body parts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was very inspired by these more simple milagros
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are more generalized.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In a way, that foot becomes anyone's foot.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started with very specific pairings that I was interested in,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I took those gestures
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I made milagros out of them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, all the pieces have been sanded
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for days and days and days.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They feel like they've been weathered
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by something that seems familiar,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a piece of sea glass in the ocean.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact that you feel that this thing has a history,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think that's important.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, here I am, cutting the body up into parts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and not thinking about the importance of the sever.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so to acknowledge that sever was, I think,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crucial to whole installation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,['Within' -- Janine Antoni]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, the first thing that you witness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you come into the space
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a sever--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a very dramatic sever--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this ascension into the ceiling.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Initially, I wanted to hang the roots from the ceiling,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and hang the milagros them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This trunk is kind of grafted to the building itself,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then when the trunk goes through the ceiling,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's grafted to a table on the second floor
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with milagros.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a little girl,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had an aunt--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her name was Auntie Eileen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She came over every Tuesday to have tea--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she was English.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And, I would sit and have tea with her,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she would teach me how to drink tea like a lady.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Part of that was learning how to cross my legs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought it was funny to take the bone from one leg
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and cross it with the skin of the other leg.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I sunk that bone right into the thigh
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that they are really fused together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So in the piece, there's really no chance
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of uncrossing my legs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When you stand in front of the object,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want you to imagine how it's been made.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the reality is that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are in contact with a lot of objects
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we have no idea how they are made.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Making any of my work is a form of healing--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, in making, I can somehow locate myself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in relationship to others
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my environment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If somebody comes along
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my work resonates for them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's when I feel less alone--
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I'm not as strange as I feel. [LAUGHS]