Super Abled - With Prosthetics

"Pam Anderson has more prosthetics in her body than I do but no one calls her disabled" Aimee Mullins


Legs as wearable sculpture. Humaness is not the only asethetic ideal in prosthetics. Using imagination, art and poetic inspirations to redefine how we look at prosthetics. Changing your height and playing with concepts of beauty with prosthetics. These are some of profound and incredibly empowering ideas that Aimee discusses. Instead of a sob story of not having legs, she talks about the joy, beauty, possibilities and imagination that has flowed in her life from wearing fake legs made of prosthetics. How it has given her an opportunity to work with makeup artists and magazines as a model to provoked the senses and ignited the imagination - whimsy matters she claims. A half woman-half cheetah created from 14 hours of prosthetic makeup for one of her photo shoots as a model was a truly beautiful and powerful story/image.

She talks about being architects of your own identity. The prosthetics wearer has the ability to change their identities from designing their bodies from a place of empowerment. By combining cutting edge robotics/technology with age old poetry. We need to celebrate our glorious "disabilities." And all the potential within it that makes us beautiful. She calls on us to relook at the concept of beauty and what is normal. And she does this without a trace of bitterness, anger or defensiveness. Now that is what you call beauty, hope and power.