The
project that Sophie De Oliveira Barata created is the artificial limb project.
She creates personalised and realistic artificial limbs for people who amputees.
She makes ones that either blend in with the body or those that are unique and
reflect the person. She founded this project in 2011.Sophie De Oliveira Barata studied
special-effects for film at the University of the Arts London. After that she worked
as a sculptor for 8 years, created prosthetic limbs.
For this type of work the type of artistic
skills that are needed are sculpting skills, measuring skills, observational
skills, colour skills, etc. This is so the limb looks its best. Measuring and
sculpting skills are one of the most important because you don’t want to have
one limb longer or bigger than the other. Also the structure of the limb needs
to be like the other good limb.
She
uses different materials which include; silicone, plastic, metal, wood and
crystals. The material of the limb depends on the type of design chosen. If the
client wants a robotic limb for example this would have specific skills. She
often collaborates with different artist often with ones that have different
skills to her like woodwork skills, laser cutting skill, and metal work skills.
To
start making the prosthesis limbs she takes a cast of the limb that is good, or
she uses a donor limb. Next she will take pictures, colour readings and will
discuss any ideas for the limb and how different it should look. Then a test
piece will be made so that it is made sure that the limb will fit. If the
client is not happy with it she will make alterations to it. She will keep
making alterations until the client is satisfied with the fitting. She will
then involve the client in designing the limb. After that she will go ahead and
make the limb for the client. She involves the person wearing the alternative
limb in all the processes so they can decide how they want it to be.
In
my opinion I like Sophie De Barata’s work because it’s unique. All the
designs that she makes are personalised to fit the clients’ needs. Each limb
she makes looks really aesthetically pleasing. If I were to get a prosthesis
made I would make it look realist, so it blends in with my body but at the same
time it would have gems and diamonds going down it.
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