In her recent TEDTalk, Alexa Meade describes how she followed her creative instincts away from an office job and into an investigation of shadows, space and light in her parent's basement. This curiosity led her to enact a variety of absurd and unorthodox practices such as coating the surfaces of toast and greasy eggs with acrylic paint and submerging her friend in a tub of milk. Yet, as she trusted the weird and wonderful intelligence of her instincts, she eventually blossomed into an artist with a unique practice, which raises new issues about dimensionality, light and materiality within the daunting medium of painting. Any artist would be proud to stake their claim on such an achievement.
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