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Body artist captures nude women blended into city scenes
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This artist’s body of work fades into the background — just the way she likes it.
New York body-paint artist Trina Merry crafted these remarkable images, painting two nearly nude models into backgrounds of Central Park and the Brooklyn Bridge.
Each shot took about eight hours over one day to complete, including location scouting, painting and photography.
The California native said her art is an homage, and a challenge, to Big Apple women who feel the need to blend in with everyone else in Gotham.
“I was fascinated by the fact that New York is such an aggressive, violent city that’s associated with male characteristics — even with masculine, phallic architecture,” Merry told The Post on Monday.
“There’s a dichotomy of women who seem to be trying to blend in in New York. I’m challenging why they do that and why this city has to be so aggressive.”
Merry, 34, did a six-work series of these blended-background photos in late May and early June.
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