Post op

It's been a week and 2 days since they sliced my eyeball and slid in a new lens. I wasn't too crash hot happy about it for the past week but it's finally starting to settle a bit. I think. Firstly it was like xtra vivid, like big bright lollyworld, with a purple cast to everything. Like blacks were blue sometimes and I could see a vast difference between the new eye n the old one. It was sharp in the middle sorta, tho too bright to look for long, and blurry round the edges like a vignette which meant I still couldn't cross roads too safe lol. Also it felt rough cos i had a black eye and it wasnt too comfy there. The black eye was from the needle they stuck under the eye to knock out the nerves in back of the eyeball. That sorta worked but then it started to wear off before the end of the op and it hurt a bit when they slid in the lens and twisted it about, but by then it's like yeah , whatever , you're still cutting into my eyeball , sure thing. Old hat it was. I guess I was sedated.

Once the new eye started to be ok to look thru, my brain rapidly decided to jump ship on the old eye and ran over to the left eye n settle there cos it's now sharper than my 'good' old eye. That's loyalty for ya innit. But then that meant my right eye was not bothering to focus anymore which sucked cos I ended up closing that one instead of closing the operated one and that confused the beejezuz out of me and everybody who usually talks to me. I'm hoping my brain will sort it's shit out soon and I'll get to use both eyes. Today they're not too bad actually I have hope. Still got 2 weeks off work to go so in 2 weeks I hope things have got sorted.

Been sleeping heaps for the past week mainly cos my eyes hurt I spose but also just getting over work. Miss my studio. Apparently I'm ok to drive now but don't feel quite like doing it yet. Maybe tomorrow I'll go over to the studio.

Poor doggie

Tomorrow going to get my eyeball sliced open. Just a cataract operation, but still, it's freaky. I feel real sad, like cos I can't explain it to my eye.. feel like I'm taking my dog to be put down. Just sad really. Cos th bit I used too look thru is gonna get chucked in a bin eh.

Anyway enuff o that. Tonight I rode my big 7-fiddy over to store it in my studio. After much swearing I got it started and had a lovely ride over there in the evening light. Surprising I could see pretty good, tho when mum drove me home in darkness after I couldn't see nuthin. Meh. Anyway got to the studio n a marvel of timing I arrived during a massive movement of very very large sculpture. There was a car sculpture, a 9 ft high block of concrete, and a few extremely large maybe 8 ft high n 6 wide steel fabrications, all totally blocking my passage into my studio. U never known timing like that. Spectacular. Farkinell. Anyway things looking bad but I ended up getting passage thru someone elses studio so it worked out. Amazing tho, itwas the one evening that things were utterly impassable n of course that's when I choose to turn up.. It's a family trait, donchaknow.

So.... I pushed it up a ramp, backed it in 3 times til I got it in the studio, lowered a rolladoor, locked it with a string of electrical cable, n locked 2 unfamiliar gates in complete darkness...all while holding my phone to one ear. Now that's a motorcyclist! Heh. I Have got skillz.

Apres show der monkey

2 more sold since the show closed, i've made my target exactly. Which is quite inscrutable, and unexplainable, but very welcome. Hopefully more will go over time. But happy with that. The economic climate is crap for selling art, apparently.

Not missing the hard yakka in studio. Am missing having a reason to live though. Have transformed the stinging goal of making art into a pining lust for a fellow office worker in my building. That will have to do til i need to transmute it back into art fuel. Its gotta go somewhere, don't it. And a change of scenery is good.

Went & cleaned up the studio. 2 hours of sweeping & moving bits around. Now the large studio is a vast expanse of uselessness, seems like. But will have a friend come use it now for a few weeks, so its good its big, cos if i wanna do something too its best have enough room eh.

My bro in law put up the fluoro's properly, so now they don't hang 2 ft below the ceiling. I couldn't get em up any higher using a shopping trolley & milk crates, tho i finally clicked how it could be done the other day, and he did it that way & it was mucho easy. (Hooks! Not tying with string.) Much better in there now with the lights higher & the room looks much more inviting.

Think i'll be moving my stuff out of storage now & into there. That'll save some bucks. And i'll have a sofa to sit on...

shows over

Shows over, picked up my sculptures this evening. They have kept about 3/4 of them tho, to put in a cabinet cos they reckon they might be able to sell a few over time. In fact they sold one tonight after i left, would u believe. Thats cool huh.

But... The Coolest thing happened today, the gallery people told me, that Google Earth "did" the gallery, and went right thru the show. Being the geek i half am, that is totally awesome. So in 3 or 4 months my show will be viewable in Google Freakin Earth. Bugger me, is that not flippin amazin.