NAKED AS JAYBIRD
Artist finds nudie nesters in a snap
This artist wants you to come out of your shell — and your clothes.
Debbie Baxter, 44, is snapping photos of men and women willing to strip down and curl up inside a humansize bird’s nest in Brooklyn.
Anyone who treks out to the Wyckoff-Bond Community Garden in Boerum Hill can give it a crack.
The pictures are part of the Portland, Ore., photographer’s Nest Project, which she hatched after hand-shaping a roost out of twigs, moss and dirt in her back yard.
“It was a way of putting myself back in the womb and in this space of unconditional love and holding,” she said, explaining that it helped her address her relationship with her mother, who suffers from mental illness.
Baxter has since taken the project public, building a dozen nests and photographing close to 300 people.
She has set up her nests at the Burning Man festival and the Women’s March in DC.
The nests let people embrace Mother Nature.
“When you take it all away, we’re all the same,” Baxter chuckled. “People can really shed their fears and worries.”
And her subjects often bare more than their bodies.
“For some people it’s just a fun thing to try out, but for others it’s about sharing their story,” she said.
Carrie Asby, 46, of Queens, was excited to go au naturel.
“It was much more peaceful than I thought,” Asby said.
“Once I got in, I felt protected and just wanted to take a nap.”
Baxter’s shoots will run through Sunday.