In microneurosurgery, three things interlock: thought, the hand, the instrument. The surgeon holds a conception of the operation in mind — one that reaches the patient only through the hand, only through the instrument. What looks from the outside like interplay is, within the operation, a single continuous act.
The Cut - Eingriffe does not show the operation as a sequence, but the moments in which thought, hand, and instrument can no longer be told apart — in which the tool becomes an extension of thought, and thought becomes movement.
The images stay close to hands, equipment, lines of sight. They show the concentration in which a person acts through material and apparatus.
