Holy crap, I am so nervous.
I'm kind of beginning to wonder what I've put myself into, like what I've gotten myself into.
Let's go.
So welcome everybody.
You traveled from all over the world to be here.
You put your belief in something.
Now it's time for you to get undressed.
By becoming part of this project, you have shown an amazing willingness to connect --
not by nationality, skin color, not by religion but just as humans.
Hi. My name is Wan-Yi.
and I'm from Taiwan.
Hi, I'm Nav.
I'm from India.
Hello. My name is Elin.
I'm from Sweden.
Hello, I'm Bassem from Lebanon.
I was born in Rwanda but I live in Brussels now.
My heart is beating so fast right now.
Can you share why it's important for you to be part of this project?
I'm here for the love.
There's not enough of it.
Almost everybody wants peace and live in peace.
But the world, like how it's going...
There's so much that's pulling us apart at the moment and we need to reverse that trend.
It's so easy to destroy.
And so difficult to build up.
From the time I was 15 until just about the time I was 20,
there are a whole lot of you in this room that
I would have hated.
I hated black people and brown people. I hated Muslims.
I hated Jews.
I think really I felt afraid of the whole world.
My daughter's skin color is different than mine.
I worry for my daughter.
It's not nice to live in fear but I'm afraid.
I don't really know where to start.
When you're 18 you have to get drafted into the army.
And I've been doing whatever I could to break the world apart.
I just need to change it.
I need to fix it.
I don't have huge amounts of money to solve world problems and all of that, but
for me, if I can make a little difference by just getting a tattoo,
well then, I think I've accomplished something.
The tattoos that you have across your backs.
They're all made up of your hopes, your beliefs...
your stories.
I'm now connected to these 60 people.
Everybody has a story.
And we really should come together more and share that story.
We kind of get caught in this tiny world of our own.
But when you go out you see that the good people exist everywhere.
The tattoo is basically a reaching hand.
Hold out your hand, take somebody, move them next to you and it doesn't matter where he's from
and what his religion is, what his political beliefs are.
Because you know,
when we all get naked we're all the same.