Skip to content The tattoo was originally supposed to be a simple, straightforward piece of body art: a bold, motivational quote inked in crisp block letters running down a man’s forearm. Instead, the highly unusual and erratic way the individual words are stacked vertically, stretched horizontally, and tightly squeezed together completely turns a basic, everyday sentence into a mess of visual chaos. People find themselves staring at the image for minutes at a time, their brains desperately and exhaustively trying to form something coherent out of the artistic jumble. Some viewers can only see random, disconnected letter fragments, others actively invent entirely new phrases that were never intended, and many just give up in frustration, completely convinced they are missing something painfully obvious.
