Retinal Degeneration

Your retina is the canvas on which your brain maps the world. Millions of light-sensitive cells translate colours, shapes, and movements into images — into your image of reality. When these cells begin to recede, the image grows blurred, distorted, riddled with holes. Medicine speaks of macular degeneration, of retinal dystrophy, of progressive cell loss. Treatment targets the tissue, the circulation, the cellular metabolism.

But there is a question that goes deeper: What do you no longer want to see? Not in the sense of a single image or a specific scene — but more fundamentally: What has led you to gradually withdraw your gaze from the world?

The retina is the organ that connects you to the outside. When it deteriorates, this is more than a tissue breakdown. It is a withdrawal. A quiet turning away from a reality that at some point became too much.