Janine Antoni loves licking and using her body to make art. 

With Mortar and Pestle she combined those two in one photograph. Obviously, we see someone licking someone else's eyeball. The eyeball belongs to Janine’s husband and fellow artist Paul Ramirez Jonas. She wanted to “taste his vision”. Yum! Usually, your eye instinctively blinks to ward off foreign objects, like your wife's tongue. But somehow they managed to take a picture without blinking. Quite an accomplishment if you ask me. I mean, even without my husband's tongue poking my eyeball I struggle to keep ‘em open on photographs.

Janine and Paul go way back. Sometime in the second half of the eighties they met at the Rhode Island School of Design. After graduating they moved to New York City together with their closest art friends. They were like the Ross and Rachel of the art world. The group shared studios, got each other shows and jobs, and helped each other installing artworks. Janine bashes the feminist stereotype of a man-hating lesbian, by saying “I just can’t imagine the whole thing without Paul.” Which really shows when you look at Mortar and Pestle. She calls it an act of trust for her husband to let her lick his eyeball, and yep, I would call that true love.