Your body is my canvas

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Watch the TED Talk "Your body is my canvas", posted by TED Global 2013 at https://www.ted.com/talks/alexa_meade in June 2013. Then listen carefully once again to the excerpt 0:11-1:54 and do the gap-filling exercise below.

Listening exercise

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Listen carefully once again to the excerpt 0:11-1:54 and do the gap-filling exercise below.

0:11: You may want to take a Cloze (1): look. There's more to this painting than meets the Cloze (2): JXUwMDNkJXUwMDFjJXUwMDFj .
0:40: Everything in this scene, the person, the clothes, chairs, wall, gets covered in a mask of paint that Cloze (3): what's directly below it, and in this way, I'm able to take a Cloze (4): -dimensional scene and make it look like a Cloze (5): JXUwMDJjJXUwMDAzJXUwMDE4 -dimensional painting. I can photograph it from any Cloze (6): ,and it will still look Cloze (7): JXUwMDZhJXUwMDc2 .
1:50: But I didn't just want to paint the Cloze (8): . I also wanted to paint the Cloze (9): and create a mapping on his body in Cloze (10): .

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Additional video

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If you like Alexa Meade's art, you may enjoy this commercial she created for Desigual.