c l e a r - s i g h t e d n e s s. ☆

who am i ?

im just a dude lol

what is my name ?

my given name is Jakub. but, well i have decided to have a stage name because my own is not much international. its pronounciation is quite specific for polish. and i don't really like or associate with other abbreaviations of my given name so. yea. and choosing a one just felt so cool... and now i have time to brag on what is it, and why i've chosen it haha... i'm a genius hands down.

it is R E I !

it comes from japanese. i reffered to myself as Rei when i wrote or thought in japanese. it just so happened. rei can be written as many ideograms, among which there are ones i particulary like, f.e: 霊 　- a ghost, a spectre 令 - a command 零 　- zero 冷 - coolness, cold

in english phonetically it sounds like "a ray" which can either mean an animal or a beam of light. both are cool, i like them.

in polish it doesn't mean anything really. there was a guy names Mikołaj Rej, but that's it.

in german it doesn't sound like anything either, however if pronounced in accordance to german rules it would sound like "Rai", which is a word for heaven in many slavic languages. before christian times, slavic "rai" reffered to a warm place, to which the birds leave for wintertime.

in latin, rei translates to "a thing". very neutral and alien sounding, i like it.

so it is Rei. spelled however one likes. i haven't come up with any compelling surname for this alias though. i thought of 'yasnovidz' because it would represent the slavic origin of mine, but it sounds strange in polish. it has too much of a serious esoteric connotation. but it can be read as experimental and ironic, too. for me it meant a wordplay on "clarity of thought" or "clarity of seeing" which is something i contemplate upon often. then it is contrasted with an old, rather irrational sounding word that means "a clairvoyant".

what even is this, besides all that yapping?

either way, i set up this page to share my works. i have spend my childhood playing with paper constructions, and the paperwork of adolescence is html. sorry for the language mess - i don't think there is much need for it, but i'm working on making all pages in both english and polish. translating my works would take some time, however i think it is worth the effort, even if just for my own exercise. i don't even know how much of this content is temporary (see paracosm comic) so... yea.

thank you for visiting, explorer...!