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Sophie de Oliveira Barata’s Alternative Limb Project applies an artistic approach to prosthetic limb design,seeking to create unique and personalized prosthetic limbs for amputees. With her degree in Special EffectsProsthetics for film and television from London Arts University and 8 years of work for prosthetic providerscreating realistic limbs, de Oliveira Barata has now established her own studio working as a specialistconsultant alongside prosthetists to create alternative prosthetic effects with direct input from clients. She alsocollaborates with other artists – designers, laser-cutters, metal, plastic, and wood workers – in order tomaximize the potential for a unique prosthetic. In addition to her “surreal” and “unreal” prosthetic designs, sheis also highly skilled in crafting realistic looking limbs.
The experience of losing a limb, often under intense and strenuous circumstances, can be alienating anddisempowering. Through her work, de Oliveira Barata offers a creative form of empowerment, one that is bothfunctional and fashionable.
“Generally the whole technology is moving towards trying to recapture a lifelike limb that looks realistic andalso acts realistic in motion,” says de Oliveira Barata. “In this instance I’m doing the complete opposite and Ithink it does capture that whole childlike imagination — it’s like being a superhero with super powers.”
“It’s drawing attention to their disability in a positive way…Rather than people seeing what’s missing, it’sabout what they’ve got…Having an alternative limb is about claiming control and saying ‘I’m an individual andthis reflects who I am.’” (via cnn)
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Roseblight • a year ago
I've seen these before and I guess I have mixed feelings because I remember a lot of commentslike "OMG so pretty - if I were an amputee I'd totally have one like this". I get it, they are beautifuland the philosophy behind them is inspiring.
My dad is an amputee - his artificial leg is pretty basic. It's heavy, it's painful, it's hard to walkwith: it was $8000. I can't even imagine how much something like this would cost. IDK whetherable-bodied people remember stuff like that.
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khamstudio • 3 months ago> Roseblight
I think the process making it more real can make it even more expensive. She's trying tobreak the stigma less real it looks can be beautiful too. Of course she took it to the otherextreme end but I think a great cause
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Roseblight • 3 months ago> khamstudio
I hope I didn't sound like I was being critical - I mean there's nothing to be criticalabout, it's marvelous and beautiful. Just people forget how expensive disability is ingeneral.
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Perry Davis • 6 months ago> Roseblight
well, she's accomplishing her goals. She wanted people to look at the prosthetics andrather than see what is missing, they see what is there instead. I think it's awesome. But Isee where you're coming from, it is important to keep in mind that these things can bepainful and hard to use. Best wishes for your father!
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Roseblight • 6 months ago> Perry Davis
Hey :) Maybe I didn't phrase myself very well: my dad's prosthetic is a very difficultone largely because it's so cheap. It's what we could afford? My point was morethat the technologically advanced ones, and I'm assuming the beautiful ones likethese, can run to $250,000. I wish I had that sort of money lying around for him, butmost people don't.
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shellflick • 6 months ago> Roseblight
This is realistic for perhaps 2% of amputees. I am happy that this article is showing thepublic that there is no shame in showing the artificial leg in whatever form....Thank you forthat.....!!!
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david quinn • 4 months ago
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