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Looks like a nice enough oil painting, right? Wrong. It's actually a photograph of a real life situation with objects, people and places covered in acrylic paint.</p><p>Alexa Meade has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. 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