What if you could turn your disability into an opportunity for expression? How about superpowers, or at least special powers?…
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The Alternative Limb Project has been creating realistic and alternative prosthetic limbs since a 2-year-old inspired them to think more creatively about the process.
Their collaborations with the people who wear the prosthetics are essential to the process.
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Most of the limbs created by the project are the work of Sophie de Oliveira Barata, a sculptor who studied special effects prosthetics for film and television production before making realistic prosthetics for amputees and founding the ALP.
Here are four of her incredible collaborations:
Snake Arm
Jo-Jo Cranfield is a British swimmer, educator, and motivational speaker.
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“I’ve never seen the interest in having a prosthetic arm, they are heavy, uncomfortable and not at all practical.
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“I wanted people to have to look at me twice with amazement. … My alternative arm makes me feel powerful, different and sexy!”
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Feathers, fine art, and futurism after the jump….
