Q. These busts, by the artist Janine Antoni, are self portraits. One of them is made out of chocolate (which the artist has licked and bitten into) and the other is made of soap (which she has repeatedly washed with water). Why do you think she chose chocolate and soap as her materials?

A. Probably because she wanted to say something about pleasure and guilt, and the unrealistic, often conflicting but internalized female associations with virtue and vice. It is also, probably no coincidence, that one is black and one is white (because these are our fundamental color associations with good and evil).