Iritis (Inflammation of the Iris)

The iris is the gateway to the light. It is the coloured ring in your eye that widens and narrows — a living muscle that regulates how much brightness enters your interior. When this gateway becomes inflamed, it burns at the very place where you control what you let in and what you keep out. Your body is telling you: the floodgate through which you manage the world is under enormous pressure. Something wants in that you don't want to see — or something wants out that you cannot show.

Iritis rarely arrives quietly. It arrives with redness, light sensitivity, a dull ache behind the eye, sometimes with blurred vision. Your eye fights against the light itself. It contracts where it should be opening. And that is precisely the image: you are in a state of closing down — not out of composure, but out of necessity.