Body painter Trina Merry has made a few people invisible in a city with more than 8 million bodies. The artist has models pose in front of New York City scenes and then goes through a painstaking painting process, replicating the background on their bare skin. The final piece is in the form of a photograph captured at just the right angle to make the figures nearly invisible.
The Brooklyn Bridge, the Guggenheim and the NYC skyline are among the backdrops that Merry blends her models into. The work is impressively accurate and sometimes even needs repainted if the background changes mid-process. In some ways her work visualizes how an individual can feel in such a massive city.
“I wanted to engage the city and understand it and make some observations”, explained Merry. “So instead of a person right in front of the Empire State building or the Statue of Liberty, they’re softly in the background, and you’ve got more of a reflective view of the person within the landscape.” – Trina Merry
Source: designfaves.com