A short note on prosthetic eyes.

Kim Erickson is an ocularist; that is, someone that makes prosthetic eyes.

Erickson – who incidentally considered a career in architecture, but then don’t they all? – makes his eyes for accident victims and those who have lost their sight through disease. Like a contemporary Hannibal Chew, Erickson hand crafts each eye out of plastic before painting first the iris then the white of the eye to match the existing eyes of the patients.

For the veins in the white of the eye, Erickson uses an ultra fine red thread of which he has a massive secret stash.

“The tendency for it to kink in a certain way when you stress it,” makes it so well-suited, Erickson says.

A full slideshow may be found here.