These images are just down-right beautiful, not to mention clever, thought-provoking and technically excellent.

The author of all this inspiring work is Peruvian artist, Cecilia Paredes who currently lives and works between San Jose, Costa Rica and Philadelphia.  Her artistic career began as a painter but her creative concepts evolved, revealing themselves first in three-dimensional objects, then through photography. This work is a series of self portraits where Paredes paints her own body to blend in with the background.

Fantastic stuff!