• 18 KG, 18 YEARS

    Location: Shonan, Kanagawa Two weeks after eighteen birthday, I left home carrying everything I owned.

  • KITCHEN SHIFT, 4 AM

    Locatioon: Naha, Okinawa Work started before sunrise—cold floors, quiet hours, steady rhythm.

  • AFTERNOON

    Location:Chatan, Okinawa‍ ‍No plan that day—the beach gave me time to think, nothing more.

  • BETWEEN JOBS

    Location: Bangkok, Thailand‍ ‍I had just left Okinawa—the festival was loud, the path unclear.

  • DAY LABOUR

    Location: Somewhere, Tokyo Signed up that morning, started hours later, paid enough to continue.

  • QUESTIONS

    Location: Daiba, Tokyo‍ ‍Sandel. More questions than answers.

  • BORROWED

    Location: Umeda, Osaka I looked like someone who had made it, but everything was borrowed.

  • DEBT

    Location: Umeda, Osaka‍ I owe more than money here—time, trust, space.

  • THE LECTURE

    Location: London, England‍ ‍He described how power works - some evening clarify what you suspect.

  • UNIFORM

    Location: London, England Formal suit to kitchen uniform—fluent in both, belonging to neither.

  • AFTER WORK

    Location: London, England Every night I cycled to the river—not to escape, but to separate.

The Meaning of My Tattoo

  • The Climbing Figure

    A boy climbs fragile steps into a breaking clock. I got this at eighteen. Effort matters. So does structure.

  • L'existence précède l'essence

    Existence precedes essence. Sartre's claim that we become through choice. I got this after leaving home at eighteen.

  • 999

    The inverse of 666. What breaks you can rebuild you. - Juice WRLD