La trahison de la réalité. Ceci est une pipe.

Alexa Meade, an installation artist based in the Washington, DC; applies acrylic paints on three dimensional surfaces of found objects, live models, and architectural spaces, creating the illusion of a painting! This is not anymore The Treachery of Images, since This is indeed A Pipe. Only a two dimensional character of a painting can utter René Magritte's edict. Magritte proved the image of a pipe was not a pipe by telling doubters, ‘Just try to fill it with tobacco’. We can imagine that in a mirror-world of images a painted character would say: "C'est la trahison de la réalité, juste essayer de le remplir avec du tabac et vous serez en mesure de le faire! " Meade says of her work;

"I paint representational portraits directly on top of the people I am representing. The models are transformed into embodiments of the artist's interpretation of their essence. When captured on film, the living, breathing people underneath the paint disappear, overshadowed by the masks of themselves."