Meet the tattoo artist who has covered 90% of his body - including his eyes - with black ink, and he is not yet done.
Adam Curlykale, from Kaliningrad, Russia, was 20 years old when he had his first tattoo. There was a small message on his arm that said "I am."
Like many others, it has been inked over the years, this tattoo does not exist after being covered by another layer of black ink.
Now, for 32 years, the vast majority of Adam's body, including his eyes, is tattooed, with only 10 percent to fill - and he plans.
When he has finished his trench, he hopes to complete the project by tattooing Mandalas - circular figures representing Hindus or Buddhism - on his palms and soles.
"I always knew I was different from the rest of society," says by Adam. "My favorite color has always been gray in different shades, so my current skin color is graphite.
"I'm drawing my tattoos because it's my body, I have a specific vision for me and I do it step by step, life is so short that I stopped wondering what's going on tomorrow: life is here and now.
And what is Adam's motivation to "live right now"?
When he was 22, he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
After months of radiation therapy, chemotherapy, molecular therapy and stem cell treatment were left behind with a very weak immune system.
Although he successfully fought for the disease, his immune system left him with several skin conditions and a partial disappearance of the pigment in the skin known as albinism.
He became very depressed, suffered from eating disorders and tried to commit suicide himself.
"I did not accept myself, and the others did not accept me," Adam said. "Tattoos allowed me to find myself, I became beautiful to myself."
In September last year he decided to tattoo his eyes and completely covered his face and documented all this at Instagram.
In addition to working as a tattoo artist, he also practices as a psychologist, cosmetologist, artist, hairdresser and singer. Because of his striking appearance, Adam has also found success as an alternative model.
"People like me are not well represented in the media," says Adam. "People are afraid to risk and promote bodily changes.
"I'm not treated seriously, because how do you seriously take someone who looks like this?
"Sometimes I think my appearance is my enemy, I would never be a doctor, a lawyer, a priest ... People often refuse me the right to live and even offer me a real job.
"I do not want to work for anyone, I do not want to have anyone on me or below me, I want to be independent, I appreciate independence and creativity to be self.
"I will die fulfilled as a person who is not afraid of taking risks, one who has lived independently of others, but in harmony with himself.
"I'm not so different from others, I eat, I sleep, I cry and I'm laughing with everyone, I'm neither better nor worse, I'm just myself and myself."
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Source: The Sun United Kingdom
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