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An electric wheelchair and driver with a fancy red and orange wheelchair seat cover.
A black and brown wheelchair with gold patterned wheels and a red, orange, and gold wheelchair seat cover.

A. Laura Brody

The Firebird
Re-used textiles, beads, and stuffing. 2014
45” x 32” x 45”
$2000


Website: www.dreamsbymachine.com/
California, USA
Photos by Stephanie Shanks (left) and A. Laura Brody (right). Model: Drew Nachreiner.

Audio by McKerrin Kelly

ABOUT THE FIREBIRD:

Wheelchair seat cushion inspired by Marc Chagall’s designs for the ballet The Firebird. The Firebird is based on Russian folklore, but also on tales of the Phoenix, that legendary bird that is reborn from its own ashes.
-A. Laura Brody

BIO:

A. Laura Brody sculpts for the human body and its vehicles. Her sculptures are conceived with a commitment to social justice and are inspired by art history and the spirit of scientific discovery. Her professional costuming career and passion for reuse gave her the skills needed to turn wheelchairs, walkers, and mobility scooters into sculptural works of art. She believes that disability is a natural human condition. Instead of “fixing”, hiding, or denying it, how do we make it thrive?
Her belief that disability should not mean a loss of beauty has lead to “Opulent Mobility”, group exhibits comprised of art, designs, and creations dealing with and reflecting on disability and mobility. The 2015 and 2017 exhibits were co-curated by the disability activist and historian Anthony Tusler. In April 2017 Brody gave a talk about the exhibits for the DisArts Symposium and took part in a panel discussion on the Spectacle of Accessibility at UCLA’s Disability as Spectacle conference.

DESCRIPTION:

Slender red and orange stuffed fabric feathers fan out from the seat, sides and back of the wheelchair. The spines have bronze beads on their tips. Orange, burgundy, and black sheer fabrics billow off the back. The spoked wheels are covered in black, painted and quilted with faint undulating lines of gold, red, and blue.
-description by Teri Grossman

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Opulent Mobility by A. Laura Brody is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
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