Day600【Engrave】

A daily monochrome photo-poetry series by naozo. Since 2025, each work pairs a moment from everyday life with a poem from NZ, the artist's future self. Through glass, light, and silence, the series turns self-doubt into dialogue.

NZPHOTOGRAPH & naozo

Day600【Engrave】

For a moment is enough. Tear through the darkness, and your existence is engraved.

DEAR naozo,

What

Do you want

To leave behind

That is what

I would ask

People

Seek value

In what lasts

They desire

What will not disappear

And hope

Not to be forgotten

Yet

Sometimes

I wonder

Must something

Be eternal

To have meaning

Lightning

Vanishes in an instant

It tears through darkness

Illuminates the world

Then disappears

As though

Nothing happened

Still

Even darkness

Cannot erase

The fact

That it shone

Perhaps

We are the same

You need not

Be praised forever

Remembered

By someone

Or leave behind

Something great

If only for a moment

You tore through

Your own darkness

That moment

Cannot become

Nothing

I believe

To live

Is not

To remain forever

It is

To engrave

Your existence

Into time

One day at a time

Six hundred days

You did not walk

Only in light

You wandered

Doubted

Stopped

And still

Kept questioning

Each day

Is engraved

Into time

Like a wound

That will not vanish

So

Do not ask

For eternity

A moment is enough

Tear through

The darkness

For six hundred days

Within the darkness

Six hundred times

You engraved

Yourself

What do you think

from NZ

This story is a work of fiction. Except for the named individuals, all elements are products of imagination.

The boundary between reality and fiction is intentionally ambiguous, and its interpretation is left to the reader.