Japanese artist Hikaru Cho transforms food with paint

Last week, we shared Tokyo-based artist Hikaru Cho's stunning body paintings highlighting sexual repression that featured as part of Amnesty International's "My Body My Rights" campaign.

The young artist's jaw-dropping skills with the paint brush led us to discover her hyperrealistic painted-object series titled "It's not what it seems," in which 20-year-old Cho uses acrylic paints to transform everyday foods into entirely different ones.

Only when the food is peeled, sliced, chopped or cracked is its original identity revealed.

A ripe cucumber is actually a banana.

Slice her tangerine in half and you'll discover it's a tomato.

And that ratatouille-worthy eggplant? It's actually an egg.

See more of Cho's work on her website.

P.S. Here's a drawing of a Heinz bean can that looks just like a photograph.