11/08/2023 3:26:56 ¶ ●

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a collection of custom Jewish tattoo designs, 2020-2023

reminder: custom tattoo designs are for client use only. it’s disrespectful to get an artist’s work tattooed without permission, and incredibly so to steal a design that was made for someone else. if you’re inspired by these, you can commission me to create something for you!

descriptions & details below

as a Jew with (Jewish) tattoos, i’m delighted whenever someone commissions me for a design that speaks to some core aspect of their personal relationship with Judaism. the first of these is an angelic meditation on the phrase “hineni” (“here i am”) & its connection to fearless self-embodiment, the next two are illustrations for passages from the Talmud (one about being self-made, featuring the miraculous “first tongs”, the other about the life cycle of Jewish demons), and the last is a more traditional tree of life with torah scroll.

if i had the time/money for a tattoo apprenticeship, i would love to learn & be able to do this work myself - as it stands, i’m honored to be part of it as a designer & grateful to the talented tattooers who have inked or will ink my pieces!

image descriptions:

1. an ink line drawing of a black heart with four angelic eyed wings, over a ring of flame around it and the word הנני
2. an ink drawing of a pair of tongs, with flames wrapping around them that contain the words ועשיתם אתם
3. an ink line drawing of a hyena skull, surrounded by thorns with a pair of bat wings above it and the letter ש
4. a vector drawing of a stylized tree with a torah scroll below it and the words עץ חיים היא

31/08/2023 3:16:45 ¶ ●

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corona moon

revisiting this little vent from May 2020 & thinking about how much has changed / how little has changed / how difficult it would be to explain my current anxiety & grief & anger (as a disabled/immunocompromised person who has never stopped masking) to the version of me that drew this. i’m not sure i would have believed where we’d be in 2023. it’s not over & we’re not disposable.

[ID: a pen drawing of a bandaged crescent moon with a virion floating inside, over two full moon faces. one face is biting the nails on the hand of a detached arm with multiple joints and spikes through the forearm. the other face is crying into the hand of a second detached arm that loops around the first.]