Alexa Meade - photographic painting

I seem to stumble upon this every couple of months and it always fascinates me. At first sight, Alexa Meade's work appears to be a traditional painting on canvas. But pull back a little and you find that the canvas is actually her subject.

Says Ms. Meade, "In my current work, I construct and then photograph ephemeral installation sets that feature an assemblage of found objects and live models, which I have covered in layers of acrylic paint. I paint the surfaces of the human subjects, the material objects, and the architecture of the installations so as to collapse the subject, foreground, and background into one continuous plane. I present my ephemeral portrait/performances as both live, interactive installations as well as permanent photographic indices of these experiences."

I like the self-referencial irony in the next one - the "painting" on the wall is actually another one of her photographs.