"I certainly don’t choose the story first, but my interests take me to the story I think. And then I research, I read, and then that sort of influences the creative process at a later date. But it's never that I want to illustrate a story through a sculpture. But more that somehow these stories are in all of us. So they just come out. There's something about my process that makes them come out. These stories are there to explain our lives to us, I think. And that's all I'm trying to do—is understand my life by making these objects. So it's not surprising." --Janine Antoni