Upper-back and neck tattoo design, with the entire lower…

Upper-back and neck tattoo design, with the entire lower back intentionally left bare and untouched. Black ink only, no color, realistic tattoo style. A dense, compact organic mass concentrated in the upper back and extending onto the neck. This mass is the visual and motional focal point, meant to draw the eye first despite not being the largest shape. Deep, twisting organic roots, realistically rendered, emerging from within the body as if from a great depth. The roots push and strain against restraints, deforming and bending them, with a few sharp root tips piercing through and breaking free at scattered points along the edges of the mass. Thick ropes and surgical-style stitches/sutures, combined together in the same area, wound tightly around the roots, realistic rope texture and stitched wound texture, visible tension between rope and root. One single continuous rope strand morphs gradually along its length through five distinct textures or motifs, one flowing into the next without breaks: skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, music, and cosmos/astrophysics/stars — this rope is part of the containment, not part of the breaking-free roots. Roots and root-tips break irregularly and asymmetrically beyond the compact mass, uneven organic edges, no symmetry, unpredictable spread. Positioned with no visual connection to the root/rope mass, an incomplete constellation of Cygnus (the Swan), placed asymmetrically and off-center — partly on the neck, shifted to one side rather than centered. A mix of isolated unconnected star points and connecting lines that break off mid-stroke. The stars themselves are NOT round or soft — render each star as a sharp, jagged shard or crack, like shattered glass, harsh angular broken shapes, high contrast, aggressive linework, contrasting with the organic realism of the roots. The text "Ad Astra per Aspera" in fine, thin, elegant typography, positioned close to the Cygnus constellation but not overlapping or merging with its lines