{"id":4259,"date":"2011-08-18T07:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T11:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=4259"},"modified":"2015-12-27T00:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T05:00:31","slug":"artful-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2011\/08\/artful-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"Artful Eyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a small number of trained ocularists &#8212; only a few hundered in the country, as it is a niche industry requiring a &#8220;trained eye&#8221; and skill to create realistic prosthetic eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I found this CNN story thought-provoking on Christie Erickson&#8217;s talent for painting and making prosthetic eyes It takes a lot of work and it&#8217;s something that often gets overlooked. As the article states,&#8221; <em>people who want to enter the profession must spend 10,000 hours, or five years, of apprenticeship to become certified.The career blends the fields of art and science &#8212; as only people with a creative side and anatomical knowledge can duplicate the organ that gives the gift of sight.<\/em>&#8221; <a title=\"CNN\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.cnn.com\/2011-07-21\/living\/eye.making.art_1_ocularists-eye-makers-prosthetic-eyes?_s=PM:LIVING\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more<\/a>&#8230;.and a link to the <a title=\"American Society of Ocularists\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ocularist.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">American Society of Ocularists<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Erickson has an interesting toolbox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/story.eyebox.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4260\" title=\"story.eyebox via CNN\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/story.eyebox.jpg\" alt=\"Prosthetic eye toolbox, as seen on Art is Everywhere\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And this is the result of one of her creations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/prosthetic-eye.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4261\" title=\"prosthetic eye via CNN\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/prosthetic-eye-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Prosthetic eye by Christie Erikson, as seen on Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/prosthetic-eye-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/prosthetic-eye.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the way I&#8217;ve been spending time on the computer, I feel my eyes are giving out on me and this is tough for an artist and I hope it is not the case. I&#8217;m now using glasses to compensate and hopefully stop further progression of blurred vision.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of music I could post in relation to eyes\u00a0to <a title=\"Kick Start the Weekend posts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/category\/music\/kick-start-the-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kick Start the Weekend<\/a> but I think it&#8217;s always intriguing to see the actual band performing, so I like to post this when I come across such footage; even though there may be higher quality videos. 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