This American artist has imagined a way to help children and their parents. She paints orthopedic helmets that children are forced to wear to correct the shape of the skull.
Corrective helmets are prescribed for very small children, most often for those who are not yet one year old. In their original form, without a shiny design, the helmets look a bit intimidating.
Often, parents complain about the inadequate reaction of passers-by: they most often look away and try to pass the strange child as quickly as possible.
Surprisingly, helmets with funny drawings, reproductions of famous paintings and funny inscriptions give exactly the opposite effect: parents receive many compliments and enthusiastic responses about what they think is an unusual headdress, keenly interested by what it is used for.
Artist Paula Stron decorated the first helmet at the request of a friend – her granddaughter was to start wearing it in the near future. When the girl’s doctor saw the painted hollow helmet, he was thrilled.
He asked the artist to leave his business cards in his office. Since then, Stron has had no labor problems. She opened her own business, which successfully sells corrective art helmets.
Over the past twelve years, Paula has adorned over a thousand little ones’ orthopedic helmets. It is curious that there are models for boys and girls. Each new helmet is a small project, a small work of art.
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