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ablatio

by mayforest

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  • black CD in black cardboard sleeve with „ablatio“-info sheet.
    handmade authentic glass eye, worn by the artist for a year, clean.
    numbered 1-3 / 3.
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    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    black CD in black cardboard sleeve with „ablatio“-info sheet.
    handmade authentic glass eye, worn by the artist for a year, clean.
    numbered 1-5 / 5 (one sold privately).
    price includes worldwide shipping.

    Includes unlimited streaming of ablatio via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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ablatio 05:27

about

retinal detachment is a disorder of the eye in
which the retina peels away from its underlying
layer of support tissue. warning signs of retinal
detachment may include one or all of the following:
reduced vision and the sudden appearance of
floaters and flashes of light. initial detachment
may be localized, but without rapid treatment the
entire retina may detach, leading to vision loss
and blindness. it is a surgical emergency.

it didn’t really start there and it didn’t really end there but it felt like something new. i hadn’t done anything wrong, i did all the doctors said, i was behaving well. i just sat there.

something had been off with my eye from when i was a child. i was wearing glasses since i was three but it didn’t have any-thing to do with that, at some point i just saw less well. and it took a while and a number of visits to escalatingly educated doctors in far away hospitals until the condition was diagnosed: something was growing inside the eye, something small that lifted the retina and put my eyesight in danger. operations followed and nothing was healed. the retina just wouldn’t want to stay in place and ultimately the goal was shifted from restoring the eyesight to hopefully keeping the eye for another while.

i was a young teenager then. the world was meant to get bigger and more colourful but instead it got smaller and bleaker and some of it ultimately disappeared.

so i just sat there, waiting for my train home, and within a second I felt the ablatio of the retina and my eyesight there almost completely disappear. what a strange and horrible sensation to literally lose a sense. it’s not black, it’s not an absence and no memory of seeing remains, there is just nothing. one eye still there, perfectly intact, waiting to take in all the great experiences waiting to happen, while there’s a void on the other side, a preview of the experience of death.

i couldn’t be happier today. the whole story went on for years and years and at some point the eye was not only a useless organ but it became a nuisance always in need for care. the doctors had rarely seen a patient being so relieved after having his eye removed.

the glass eye is a fascinating item, so simply constructed, so natural and lifelike. when i wear it, i normally don’t feel it. it blends in with the absence of the sense the original organ had produced. it is there just as the sense is not.

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released February 14, 2024

recorded and mixed 2024
everything by christian maiwald © 2024

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a kind of ambient music from a guy living in szczecin

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