Cataract Op

My creative for today....
I was observing all the colours and shapes during the entire operation, that I could see with the eye that was having the cataract removed and a new one put in. I found it very interesting. And it was a distraction from all the cramps I was getting in the rest of my body, I think because I never normally lie down completely flat. So I focused my intensity on the colours and shapes in my eye as the operation progressed.


In the beginning, after the anaesthetic, and the injection, it was an interesting view of a long needle coming into the eye, it did not hurt at all and strangely was not scary, there were colours and shapes and it was as if it was on a white background and the colours on the white background were pale blue and pale yellow in like a mottled sort of a pattern. Water was being poured on my eye and I kept hearing the surgeon saying water water and then more water more urgently. And this went on for the whole of the operation. I am assuming that possibly this first bit which is prior to her cutting whatever she had to do to get the bits of the old cataract out. Then I saw a dark black circle with the dots in it which took up the whole of the circle. Two dots were viridian green, and one dot was like an alizarin crimson red. At exactly the same time as I saw that there was a small abstract-like black outlined jagged segment next to it which was thin black lines which made like perfect squares and the background was white on that little abstract bit. It was a small part of the whole picture I could see in the eye and that shape was sharp jagged on the outside and that sharp jagged shape kept changing a bit. I am assuming that was when the surgeon was pulling out the dead bits of cataract or whatever happens at that stage. The mottled blue colour and the yellow colour intensified every time she was saying more water more water, more water, and those two colours were always there throughout the whole of the operation. The bubbles of water at the bottom of the painting were like as though they were against a sheet of glass. Sometimes that dark black circle with a red and green circles within it disappeared at the beginning and then came back again, disappeared a bit and then came back again. And then there were more black circles. And they all had these red and green smaller circles in them, But there were also more of the red and green circles within this black circle by now. At various points the black lines in this white jagged abstract bit, they always had perfect squares on a white background. Then they started happening less. And then these black line squares faded away. And then there was one large dark black circle with a lot of small, red and green circles within it. Then that went into a solid dark circle, then faded away and I am left with this mottled pale blue and mottled pale yellow on the white background. And then my eye was covered with gauze at that point. And so that was operation over.

I did this creative within a variety of apps on my iPad. I think I would normally do it as an acrylic painting because to get the intensity of colour.

It is a bit too early to do more detailed painting yet because this caused a bit of eye strain on my new cataract eye...

I hope you had a good day.