Every tattoo is a unique, singular art piece. It is a story that becomes one with its owner, never to be retold on another person’s skin. Hebrew Tattoos is actually an ongoing art project, reflecting personal stories on thousands of participants all over the world.
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A seminal moment
Your Hebrew Tattoo is born out of a seminal moment. That moment is yours. It could be a new understanding, a milestone, a reminder, a promise, a tribute or an expression of desire. This moment has brought you here to uncover and accentuate its meaning through the ancient Hebrew letters.
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A seminal moment
Your Hebrew Tattoo is born out of a seminal moment. That moment is yours. It could be a new understanding, a milestone, a reminder, a promise, a tribute or an expression of desire. This moment has brought you here to uncover and accentuate its meaning through the ancient Hebrew letters.
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Meet Tamar
Once you reach out through our website, you will be called by Tamar. She will be your touch point, walking you through the process and as your technical guide. Once you are ready, she will introduce you to David via email.
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Meet Tamar
Once you reach out through our website, you will be called by Tamar. She will be your touch point, walking you through the process and as your technical guide. Once you are ready, she will introduce you to David via email.
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Meet David
A long time childhood friend of Gabriel’s, David is a reclusive traditionalist Jew, who lives in Tzfat and is a linguist and a bible scholar. In your email exchange, David will dive into your story, ask questions, make suggestions and possibly even challenge your perception. All to further clarify the true essence of your notion. He will then begin a process of wording and phrasing, including a search through poetry, verses, scripts of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Yiddish in an effort to find the perfect way to express your story.
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Meet David
A long time childhood friend of Gabriel Wolff, David is a reclusive traditionalist Jew, who lives in Tzfat and is a linguist and a bible scholar. In your email exchange, David will dive into your story, ask questions, make suggestions and possibly even challenge your perception. All in which to further clarify the true essence of your notion. He will then begin a process of wording and phrasing, including a search through poetry, verses, scripts of Hebrew, Aramaic and Yiddish in an effort to find the perfect way to express your story.
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The concept
Gabriel will read your story as put together by David. He will then begin his private process of artistic conceptualising, infused by his own spirituality and philosophy. The process has him envisioning forms, textures, and colours as he fleshes out the concept. Once the visual concept is born, David will present it to you. If you accept, Tamar will arrange a Zoom meeting between you and the artist.
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The concept
Gabriel Wolff will read your story as put together by David. He will then begin his own private process of artistic conceptualising, infused by his own spirituality and philosophy. The process has him envisioning forms, textures and colours as he fleshes out the concept. Once the visual concept is born, David presents it to you. If you accept, Tamar will arrange a Zoom meeting between you and the artist.
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Meet Gabriel Wolff
This is where you and the artist get to know each other, talk through the artistic concept and further develop the trust needed to complete the journey.
Sometimes the conversation is like fine tuning and sometimes light is being shed so much that the concept can be altered. Once both the minds and hearts of you and the artist are at ease, the concept is established.
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Meet Gabriel Wolff
This is where you and the artist get to know each other, talk through the artistic concept and further develop the trust needed to complete the journey.
Sometimes the conversation is like fine tuning and sometimes light is being shed so much that the concept can be altered. Once both the minds and hearts of you and the artist are at ease, the concept is established.
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The art
Over the next months, in the outskirts of Berlin, Gabriel will cultivate your art in his studio. This is where the magic happens. It is a dance of aspirations, imagination, thoughts and feelings that occurs between Gabriel, his pencil, the ink and paper.
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The art
Over the next months, in the outskirts of Berlin, Gabriel Wolff will cultivate your art in his studio. This is where the magic happens. It is a dance of aspirations, imagination, thoughts and feelings that occurs between Gabriel, his pencil, the ink and paper.
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3D model
Our innovative approach is simple: The glass ceiling of existing practices is only there to enable us to see through it and go above and beyond it, continuously. Your body is your temple which is why the art must fit and match you accurately. To do so, we create models, based on 3D scans of your body.
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3D model
Our innovative approach is simple: The glass ceiling of existing practices is only there to enable us to see through it and go above and beyond it, continuously. Your body is your temple which is why the art must fit and match you accurately. To do so, we create models, based on 3D scans of your body.
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A journey’s end
When the art is complete, the team will professionally scan the work. You will receive the scanned art along with the 3D model and renders.
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A Journey’s end
When the art is complete, the team will professionally scan the work. You will receive the scanned art along with the 3D model and renders.
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The tattoo
Tattooing Gabriel’s art can be done by the tattooist of your choice or by our carefully selected and trusted tattooists. We have an ongoing long term relationship with some of the leading tattoo studios in most major cities in the world. We will happily and proudly recommend a tattooist in your area and when needed, make sure you are granted access to your studio of choice.
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The tattoo
Tattooing Gabriel’s art can be done by the tattooist of your choice or by our carefully selected, trusted, tattooists. We have an ongoing long term relationship with some of the leading tattoo studios in most every major city in the world. We will happily and proudly recommend a tattooist in your area and when needed, make sure you are granted access to your studio of choice.
More than an embellishment, a tattoo should always be
a piece of art that has a story to tell. Your story.
This is how we work
More than an embellishment, a tattoo should always be a piece of art, that has a story to tell. Your story.
This is how we work
How to understand one's self
through the eyes of others.
During the past 10 years, Gabriel Wolff has created art for thousands of Jews and non Jews on 5 continents. Every tattoo is an expression of a singular story, puristically using only Hebrew letters. Wolff says that identity, and above all collective identity, is a reflective process: I understand myself through the eyes of others. But when an important part of my identity is hidden from the eyes of those others, that process is interrupted.