Trina said: “I paint on people and, with great care, photograph them using single perspective point photography. This creates a hyper realistic illusion that they are blending into their surroundings.“Bodypaint is the oldest art form that we know of, predating cave paintings.“I am fascinated by how these indigenous markings were used to identify stages of life, rank within a tribe and a distinction between tribes.”She added: “We have a very similar behaviour in contemporary societies via consumerism, fashion, the cars we drive and houses we buy to represent status.“However while indigenous tribes accept and embrace the individual as a part of their community, knowing them by name, in our contemporary culture, our individuality is lost and our ‘markings’ only homogenise.
“I’ve never felt more alone and disposable than while living in New York. It feels like I could disappear and no one would know.“My work shows that experience. It uses marking the body to show what we put on our bodies to identify ourselves within a ‘tribe’ actually cause us to disappear.“Painting on the body also creates a special connection to a person that other visual art forms have trouble accomplishing. It’s a distinctly human experience.”
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