abykilo

Designer

📍 Baguio City, Cordillera, Philippines

Upcycler artist using handstich, poetry writer Every stitch in this jacket tells a story not just of fabric, but of a life reborn. There was a time when my world was fractured, lost to the clamor of the streets and the false comfort of fleeting pleasures. Days bled into nights consumed by habits that promised escape but only delivered deeper chaos. My future, once bright with possibility, was unraveling, wasted on simple worldly desires that led nowhere but to trouble and addiction. ​Looking back, the regret for those squandered moments, for the future I nearly sacrificed, is profound. But in the quiet echo of that past, art found me. It offered not just a canvas, but a lifeline. This jacket, with its intricate patchwork and deliberate hand-stitching, became my refuge, my rehabilitation.