{"id":374,"date":"2010-12-11T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T23:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=374"},"modified":"2024-07-13T12:52:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T10:52:30","slug":"hand-and-arm-prosthetics-in-the-media-tanja-kiewitz-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"Hand and arm prosthetics in the media &#8211; Tanja Kiewitz Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disability \/ amputees in the media<\/a> being a peculiar issue, I was intrigued to see a Belgian fellow arm amputee exposing herself for a disability campaign with this message subtitle (in English:) &#8220;Look into my eyes &#8230; I said, my eyes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Of course you cannot just look into her eyes because you really get seriously distracted here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is stunnigly beautiful. One has to look at all of her, not just the eyes. I find it impossible to just look at her eyes.<\/li>\n<li>She is not just beautiful all around &#8211; this is a topless \/ bra \/ breast outline exposing photo. Any hormonally driven person will accept her command to say &#8220;stare onto my bra and what it contains, please&#8221; &#8211; but to look into her &#8230; eyes?<\/li>\n<li>And then there is her short arm. Missing arms and hands are just about as relaxing as missing eyes, lips or noses &#8211; not a bit. It really distracts and makes it further difficult to &#8220;just&#8221; look into her eyes. I cannot even look at images of myself where I am not wearing a prosthetic, I find them not cool at all without prosthetic and they are definitely distracting. A very important role a prosthetic has is to ease interaction by at least releasing some of the tension caused by visual distraction through a missing limb.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/tanjakiewitz\/tanjakiewitz.jpg\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/images\/tanjakiewitz\/tanjakiewitzsm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I am not sure I understand this correctly &#8211; but that message and that visual do appear to contain a few &#8211; not just one &#8211; double binds.<\/p>\n<p>And despite her being a charming lady and good looking, I don&#8217;t think people take away that much from seeing that particular poster. Particularly not in relation to the subtitle that asks the observer to look into the model&#8217;s eyes (but not elsewhere). Most observers probably will realize &#8220;um&#8230; that made me stare now, didn&#8217;t it&#8221; &#8211; but not much else.<\/p>\n<p>Why is she not fully dressed? Why doesn&#8217;t she wear a prosthetic? And why can&#8217;t she a bit more switched on about her actual appearance being so much of a distraction? I mean, if she wanted everyone to look into her eyes, she definitely could have gotten that with a different photo.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand the poster is relevant &#8211; it does allow everyone to look at Tanja being beautiful and disabled and in a way learn that her asymmetry is more normal and unspectacular than may meet the eye. It is just there. Nothing about it really. So after spending a moment getting the visuals adjusted one will say, screw it, I will stare her down now. Bring on these eyes! But things take a moment to take in.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, visuals and subtitles here clash, create contradiction, cause tension.\u00a0Because that is what that poster did &#8211; it made me look. And if she had worn blue antlers it would have made me look even more. Really, it made me a bit worried about the future of disability empowerment.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=swisswuff\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With disability \/ amputees in the media being a peculiar issue, I was intrigued to see a Belgian fellow arm amputee exposing herself for a disability campaign with this message subtitle (in English:) &#8220;Look into my eyes &#8230; I said, my eyes&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disability-public","category-media","category-support","wpcat-28-id","wpcat-29-id","wpcat-1-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 09:22:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13268,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/13268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}