New York-based mixed-media artist Nina Katchadourian adds a series of photographs to her ongoing ‘Seat Assignment’ project that was started in 2010. The project is a collection of digital images, video, and sound works accumulated on the flights that the artist takes.
Her latest series titled ‘Buckleheads’ features the faces of passengers captured on the reflective surfaces of safety belt buckles. Katchadourian tilts her safety belt to ‘capture’ the portraits of unsuspecting passengers seated near her on the plane.
“Seat Assignment is born from an investment in thinking on your feet, from optimism about the artistic potential that lurks within the mundane, and from curiosity about the productive tension between freedom and constraint,” explains the artist on her website.
[via Visual News and Nina Katchadourian]