It is a craft that only a few people in the world have mastered: making glass eyes. Yannick Müller-Uri is a sixth-generation ocularist. First, he produces the blank: he blows a glass sphere with a deceptively real iris and pupil that resembles a human eyeball. From this, he shapes the individual eye prosthesis for the patient over a gas flame so that it fits perfectly into the eye socket.
It is not just the color of the iris that matters - tiny veins and the whites of the eyes are reproduced down to the last detail. It takes seven years to train as an ocularist - which not only requires enormous sensitivity, but also a very special empathy for the patient's fate. The sense of achievement is all the greater when, at the end, the artificial eye can hardly be distinguished from the real one.
In the video:
Yannick Müller-Uri, Ocularist
Credits:
Author: Jutta Kastenholz
Camera: Stefanie Vier, Max Blum
Sound: Lasse Otten
Editing: Gerson Reschke
Graphics: Katharina Flamm
Editors: Rolf Hüffer, Dorothee Eisinger
Social media editing: Land und Leute RP Online
1 окт 2024
