 Corte references the practice by groups of people who in the early 1980s were labeled in the jargon of analytic psychology, as well as U.S. urban subculture, as "devotees" (people attracted by amputations), or "wannabes" (people who practice self-amputation).These fetishists performed voluntary self-mutilation for erotic or merely decorative reasons as they searched for a new aesthetic of the body.Corte’s sculptures are not simply “prostheses” imitating the original form of the missing body part; rather, they take on free aesthetic connotations with the addition of elements which widen the possibilities for the use of the artificial part itself.