Ghost bodies on New York architecture by Trina Merry

11/08/2014. [NYC] USA
metalocus, ÁNGEL BLANCO

The streets of New York are Trina Merry's studio, bodypainting specialist, doing disappear her models, mixing them with the urban landscape.

Gotham Skyline. Photography © Bebeto Matthews

Gotham Skyline. Photography © Bebeto Matthews

Central Park. Photography © Bebeto Matthews

Coney Island. Photography © Bebeto Matthews

Guggenheim Museum. Photography © Bebeto Matthews

Brooklyn Bridge. Photography © Bebeto Matthews

Photography © Bebeto Matthews

Manhattan Bridge. Photography © Bebeto Matthews

For inhabitants of large cities is easy to feel than are invisible, and Trina Merry used this idea literally to develop her work. Using the technique of bodypainting, to transform models topless in landscapes of the Big Apple. Only the use of brightly colored sneakers draw attention to the images that make up the bodies with the Guggenheim Museum or the Manhattan bridge.

“I wanted to engage the city and understand it and make some observations,” Merry told the AP. “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.”

Angle was everything when camouflaging each model into the landscape. It took six hours to complete each “work.”