In a world obsessed with perfection, it is not uncommon to promote beauty. Many of us believe that beauty is about possessing a flawless façade – and how wrong we are! We even mistakenly relate it to perfection. This is, of course, a chimera!
We forget that life as we know it is imperfect!
Why can’t we focus on the things that really matter?
This video clip is a well-timed reminder that beauty and perfection are two different things
altogether.
Disabled mannequins elicited astonished looks from passers-by on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse on December 02, 2013. Between the perfect mannequins, there will be figures with scoliosis or brittle bone disease modelling the latest fashions. One will have shortened limbs; the other a malformed spine.
This is a campaign developed for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities by Pro Infirmis, an organization for the disabled. Entitled "Because who is perfect? Get closer", it is designed to provoke reflection on the acceptance of people with disabilities.
Director Alain Gsponer has captured the campaign as a short film.
The figures are life-sized, three-dimensional representations of Miss Handicap 2010, Jasmin Rechsteiner, radio presenter and film critic Alex Oberholzer, track and field athlete Urs Kolly, blogger Nadja Schmid and actor Erwin Aljukic.
"We often go chasing after ideals instead of accepting life in all its diversity. Pro Infirmis strives especially for the acceptance of disability and the inclusion of people with disabilities," says Mark Zumbühl, a member of the Pro Infirmis Executive Board, in describing the campaign.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Don’t mistake beauty with perfection. After all, even perfection has a defect: it is apt to be dull.
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