The Insecurities Project
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 11.26.02 | 3:45 PM ET
In these times of heightened airport security, many guards have been asking camera-toting passengers to snap a photo. If the camera clicks or flashes, the reasoning goes, it’s actually a camera and not a safety hazard. The pictures taken are often thoughtless throwaways—shots of the tile floor or fellow passengers caught in a blur—and of no real interest to the picture takers.
But these security-induced snaps are of interest to Canadian artist Isabelle Devos, who hopes to gather as many of them as possible and combine them into the Insecurities Project. “From these collected photos Devos will develop an art piece that will address the cultural and social patterns within the images,” says a press release on her site. “When exhibited, the final piece will create an intriguing record of one seemingly insignificant detail in our ever-changing world.” Thus far, according to a recent New York Times article, she’s accumulated 19 photos. She hopes for at least 50. A gallery in Anchorage, Alaska has already offered Devos space for an exhibition.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
