Furniture: A Tool for Standing
Project Description
This piece is designed to be a kitchen tool. It is half furniture and half high end woodworking tool and includes details from both worlds. It was also designed and constructed using notable cues from the tectonic expression of my current prosthetic.
Prosthetics themselves are a hybrid object made of a combination of one of a kind custom shapes, hand formed specific to the individual user, and parts ordered from a catalogue. The socket at the top, where my leg goes, is an actual component from one of my older legs, slightly beautified for this project. It is held securely but also delicately, not unlike the way I am held. There are mechanical fasteners used to make connections between each component here, as in the original, and off the shelf metal stock modified and used to provide a sturdy and flexible base. The piece is not intended for me to walk in, but only to stand in while I perform whatever task it is I need the support for. The handle allows for a way for me to easily place this custom support structure where it is needed.
Prosthetics themselves are a hybrid object made of a combination of one of a kind custom shapes, hand formed specific to the individual user, and parts ordered from a catalogue. The socket at the top, where my leg goes, is an actual component from one of my older legs, slightly beautified for this project. It is held securely but also delicately, not unlike the way I am held. There are mechanical fasteners used to make connections between each component here, as in the original, and off the shelf metal stock modified and used to provide a sturdy and flexible base. The piece is not intended for me to walk in, but only to stand in while I perform whatever task it is I need the support for. The handle allows for a way for me to easily place this custom support structure where it is needed.
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