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12 pairs of legs Part 3
Legs Patrt 3
Hello, dear friends! Today, I will continue telling you about Aimee Mullins (you can see/view her speech/presentation called “12 Pairs of legs” at ted.com). This is the third part of my “composition” (the two previous ones see were posted earlier).
Aimee’s next adventure was her participating in Matthew Barney’s film opus called “The Cremaster Cycle”. At this point of her life, she stopped trying to replicate the humanness of her artificial legs as the only aesthetic ideal. They made for her “glass” legs out of optically clear polyurethane (a.k.a. bowling ball material). Then they made and other legs which were cast in soil with a potato root system growing within them and beetroots coming out the top. After that, they created another character – a half-woman and half cheetah with articulated paws, claws and a tail that whipped around like a gecko's. Later, they collaborated on a new pair of legs that were similar to those of a jellyfish. legs. The only purpose of for all of these pieces of art was to provoke the senses and ignite the imagination.
Now, Aimee has more than a dozen of her pairs of prosthetic legs of different lengths and types. models. Thanks to this variety she can/is able to change her height and have an entirely new relationship with the terrain under her feet and/as well as door jams. She remembered that once/a time when she brought a new pair of legs with her and went to attended a (this sounds better) very fancy party. With those legs she increased her height to became 6’1’’ height (instead of her normal 5’8”) and Another woman girl that had known her for years was stunned when she saw her dropped her mouth open and said that it was not fair that she could change her height whenever she wanted to. as she want it.
At that moment, Aimee realized that when it comes to talking about the disabled person, we should not be discussing only how to the conversation with society is no longer a conversation about overcome their deficiency but rather concentrate more a talk about their potential! People that society once considered to be disabled can now be the architects of their own identities and help to design their own bodies. But However, the most important thing is that now people can move closer to understanding our collective humanity by combining cutting-edge technology with and the old-age-old poetry. Aimee is sure that we all have heartbreaking/tremendous strengths and glorious disabilities and finished by quoting one of Shakespeare’s verses: “If you prick us, do we not bleed, and if you tickle us, do we not laugh?”
We all belong to the human race beings – beings that are extremely vulnerable and very strong at the same time.
I hope you managed to watch this video at TED and got/had an opportunity to think one more time about a the human being and humanity, disability and superability…
Well done Tanya! Most of my corrections simply allow you to see alternate ways of saying the same thing in a potentially more refined way. You summarized the talk very well!
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