The Body is a Canvas?

• Meade speaks in the second person, and talks to "you." This makes the listener feel connected, and involved in the speech, and is able to put themselves into the perspective Meade is creating.
• The varied cadence and musically blunt voice infliction seems to confirm the audience's surprise about her shocking subject, as if to say, YES this is what I am doing. 
• The juxtaposition of imagery is used when Meade talks about shadows, when she paints on top of them, then the real one disappears her own shadow is "brought to light." This dark and light imagery easily allows the audience to visualize her process.
• The whimsical diction lures the audience to agree that Meade's paintings are "magic".
• Meade's sarcastic humor about her plans for after college where she would "work at a desk" makes her path to art seem much more exciting and almost inevitable. 
• "I made the tough decision of not going up to capital hill, but going down to my parent's basement." This phrase uses parallelism between the directions her life could have gone to show their stereotypical relevance to society, up is associated with success and heaven, down is associated with hell and failure. 
• Repetition of the near impossibility of "getting paint to stick to ___" emphasizes the early difficulties Meade had with her project. 
• Her comparison to her own hiding of body parts where paint was washed away to a little kid hiding hands in the pockets provides a sense of legitimacy to her art form.