Key To The Drawer: October 2010

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Aimee Mullins

Aimee Mullins understands the thought of making something beautiful and extraordinary out of something that is considered to be "powerless, sidelined, stalled, worn-out, wrecked, helpless, incapable, lame". She makes her disability into something amazing, beautiful and something to be proud of.

Aimee was also born with fibular hemimelia and as a result had both legs amputated at the age of one. She has since competed in the paralympics, worked with designer Alexander Mcqueen and photographer Nick Knight as a model and has also worked as an actress. She shows that difference isn't necessarily a bad thing. It is not something to be feared, it is something that makes a person who they are and something that can be truly beautiful.

"Poetry is what elevates the banal and neglected object to a realm of art. It can transform the thing that might have made people fearful into something that invites them to look and look a little longer and maybe even understand." Aimee Mullins, Febuary 2009.