# Your body is my canvas

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDGlobal 2013
- Speaker: Alexa Meade
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/alexa_meade_your_body_is_my_canvas)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Alexa Meade takes an innovative approach to art. Not for her a life of sketching and stretching canvases. Instead, she selects a topic and then paints it--literally. She covers everything in a scene--people, chairs, food, you name it--in a mask of paint that mimics what's below it. In this eye-opening talk Meade shows off photographs of some of the more outlandish results, and shares a new project involving people, paint and milk.

## Lectures

1. [Your body is my canvas](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/alexa_meade_your_body_is_my_canvas/6a12f6c684c3), 7 min (TED's player)