Ambidextry: Drawing with all four limbs
Rajacenna van Dam from Vlaardingen is not only good at drawing with her left hand. Even with her right hand. And recently, she also appears to be able to draw with both her feet.
The ability to be good with both hands, left and right, is called ambidextry. Around 1 percent of the population is ambidextrous. There are ambidexters in sports and also in art: it is claimed that the left-handed Leonardo da Vinci was also ambidexterous — he regularly took notes in mirror writing.
The German TV channel ProSieben had her brain activity measured while drawing simultaneously: she is highly focused and has symptoms that look like epilepsy when she draws — but that doesn't bother her, she says. She is now a professional artist, who makes commissioned portraits from 2,000 euros. In addition, because she herself has a stomach disorder and autism, she started in Rotterdam as a 'Heartenjager', a social project to help people with disabilities with a distance from the labor market discover their talents.
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