Very few people would argue with the fact that New York City is a beautiful place with lots of interesting spaces and architecture. To explore these spaces in the context of other beautiful forms, artist Trina Merry painted the mostly nude bodies of models to blend in with landmarks around the island of Manhattan and its boroughs.
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Merry used the Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, the Guggenheim Museum, the Empire State Building, Central Park, and various other sites as the inspiration and backdrops for her body paintings. Each piece took around six hours to complete, and there was an incident where some prude called the cops because of the nude model in the street, but otherwise the project went as planned and resulted in some really cool photographs.
"I wanted to engage the city and understand it and make some observations," the photographer told the Associated Press. "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."
The series reminds us of the work of Chinese artist Liu Bolin, the "Invisible Man," though his photographs carry more political, social, and cultural weight than Merry's series does.
[via Designboom]
