Posted on 07/19/2023 1:20:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man who lost his right eye in an accident over 50 years ago has been given a new one by a tattooist in Sevilla.
At the age of 25, Florencio lost his eye after being kicked by a horse in the stable where he worked. Finally, at the age of 80 he decided to have an eye tattooed on his eyelid, writes Nuis Diario, Wednesday, July 19.
Florencio was only 25 years old and worked in a stable in a village in Sevilla when he was so badly hit in the face by a horse that he ended up losing an eye.
Irish Prime Minister Makes Surprise Visit To Ukraine He has had three operations to fit a prosthesis, but all three times his body has rejected it and has ended up expelling it. For more than fifty years Florencio has hidden behind a pair of sunglasses that he never takes off.
The solution occurred to him solution when a friend from Sanlúcar la Mayor gave him the idea to paint on the eye he didn’t have, after finding Manu Madrigal from Sevilla, one of the country’s leading experts in repair tattoos.
Florencio asked him to tattoo the image of the eye he had lost on his eyelid, so that with sunglasses it would like he had his own two eyes.
Tattooist, Manu recalls when he was asked: ‘The first thing I said to him was no.’ However, the challenge was too big to refuse and he ended up accepting.
The consultation alone took nine months, the tattoo artist met with Florencio and his surgeon to analyse the risks and weigh up the pros and cons of such a complex tattoo. He had never worked on such delicate skin, the thinnest in the whole body measuring between 0.6 and 1 millimetre thick.
A Most Difficult Process One of the problems they had to overcome was with the eye socket being empty, the skin was not stretched and so it was impossible to draw on it. The surgeon found a solution by sewing up the eyelid to tighten it and make the tattooist’s work easier.
At the Twotattoo studio, Manu was accompanied by Florencio’s surgeon at all times. During a first three-hour session, Manuel outlined every detail of the eye. Painting the eyelashes upwards, the age-worn tear trough, the eternal youth of his pupil and even a reflection of light sneaking into the iris.
Two weeks later, after it had healed sufficiently, a second two-hour session was used to review his work. Manu, ever the perfectionist, searched through a countless colour combinations to find the same shade of blue in his other eye. ‘It’s impossible for them to be the same,’ says Manu, ‘one eye has life… and the other doesn’t.’ But together they have given him back a look that Florencio had not seen for more than fifty years.
It looks good.
The tattooist trained all his life for this one moment.
Could tattoo a man on his...
Once there was a young man with a wooden eye.
Now, he’s very self conscious of his eye. Every year, the annual village dance comes around, and every year, he stands off to the side, feeling sorry for himself.
This year was no different. As he’s standing there, all melancholy, he spots a young lady with a wooden leg. She too is standing aside and looking sad.
The young man thinks, “Now, I know I’m no prince charming, but I bet if I ask that lady for a dance, she’ll say yes.” So he works up his courage, puts on a brave face, and walks over to her.
“Pardon me ma’am, but w-w-would you dance with me??”
Surprised, she exclaimed, “ohh, would I? Would I!”
“Nevermind then, peg leg! PEG LEG!!”
Did you just reference Down Periscope?…
"Now Mr. Davis, do you take cream and sugar in your eye?"
I disagree. It’s a decent depiction of a generic eye, but it’s poor facsimile of the client’s eye. The iris in the tattoo appears larger and lighter than the client’s other eye. If the customer is happy, who am I to judge? But as a great work of Spanish art, I’d rate it only slightly above than this doozy from a decade ago:
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/08/elderly-woman-ruins-19th-century-fresco-in-restoration-attempt
I remember that piece of art…
Dude’s 80, doesn’t matter. I’d eye patch it, pirate style.
I did!It was great.
With girls within ear shot, he would say he had something in his eye and “remove” his fake eye.
He would then wash it off in a glass of beer and pretend to place it back in his eye socket. Blink a few times and say all is good now with the girls staring at his face to compare the eyes.
Nice!
A student in my high school had a glass eye...While we were all reading in Junior English class one day, he took his eye out and laid it on his desk...
A girl saw it and screamed out real loud...The teacher came over and jumped all over Tommy, asking what he thought he was doing...
He kinda grinned and said his eye was tired from so much reading, he thought he’d let it rest...
IT WAS HILARIOUS!!!!!!
I’m impressed and upset at the same time…
:)
Such a funny movie, and so underrated. A shame it’s probably the last of the great service comedies, since the real service is becoming a woke disaster — funny, but not in a good way.
“The Watchful Poker Chip of H. Matisse”
Short story by Ray Bradbury.
So, only one eye blinks?
There was a teacher in my junior high skool with a glass eye. He would get up really close to you and stare at you with the fake eye, and he would move his real eye rapidly from side to side. It was really freaky.
The kids universally hated him, and he only lasted one year.
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