Here I return to one of my most personal themes. I don’t hide that the project was inspired by the phenomenal manga Blame!, yet when I reflected on why its dark world draws me so deeply, I realized it resonates with my own inner world— not in content, but in form.
For many years I’ve been struggling with depression, and through that struggle I’ve learned to speak about it and to express it through art. Out of this process, I created a small narrative that helped me give shape to the experience — and from a series of sketches emerged the environment I call The Absolute.
The Absolute is a city of machines — like an ancient computer, an endless labyrinth of shafts, tunnels, voids, and mechanical chasms. It is a metaphor for the complex mind, a place where joy has been lost. Within this structure, a small remnant of humanity survives, constantly threatened by the very machines that once served them.
From this foundation grew my environment design — inspired by Blame! but gradually evolving its own language and form. I created a scene depicting a massive spaceship docking deep within the structure, connecting to one of the labyrinth’s colossal corridors. The architecture is intentionally inhuman — sharp edges, tilted planes, and monumental masses that create a sense of alien purpose and oppressive silence
This work represents the first chapter of a story about a small group of people searching for a way out of The Absolute — hunted by machines and fighting each day for survival. In the end, the main character finds a passage out of this desolate place — a metaphor for the belief that there is always hope, and a way to emerge from darkness. With determination, and with the people we love beside us, the path toward light can always be found.
