A crush on film: the fine art of smearing your subject.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

"Do you think green M&Ms make you horny?" asks the artist Jennifer West on the phone from LA. We are talking about urban myths. I plead ignorance to this one. West explains, "Well, there's this idea about green M&Ms, and it just seems really odd to me, that the colour green would be related to sexuality." So odd in fact she made a 70mm movie about it, but this is no ordinary movie. West rarely picks up a camera, instead she quite literally smears the film in the subject, in this case crushed green M&Ms and Mezcal worms (we were talking about mythical aphrodisiacs). When processed, the film is surprisingly beautiful, a fuzzy composite of abstract colours.

There is a nice disparity between West's …