After the wearer of this tattoo broke his back in a fall, the doctors put pedical screws in his back, an infection set in under the cast, and he had four follow-up operations which left him with a giant wide central scar and a back full of smaller scars. People who’d see him on the beach in Daytona would ask him if it was a shotgun injury over and over, which is what it most resembled.

He went to multiple tattoo artists, none of whom wanted to go near the project, until one day on the beach he met a girl who turned out to be Anna from Anna’s Artat2 who told him she could fix it. He’s twenty-five hours into the project now, with about ten hours to go, and says he can now take his shirt off and feel proud.