Vladimir Tamari was born in Jerusalem in 1942. He studied physics and art at the American University of Beirut. In 1963, he spent a year at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London, which influenced his career. Based in Beirut, Tamari worked with the UNRWA to document the plight of Palestinian refugees on film. During this time, he also worked with Jordanian artist Mona Saudi on a book of drawings and interviews with Palestinian refugee children and produced cartoons and graphic design in support of the Palestinian liberation movement. In 1970, Tamari relocated permanently to Japan, where he spent the rest of his life in Kyoto and Tokyo exploring his interests in fine arts, graphic design, physics, and industrial design. Throughout his career, Tamari worked primarily in watercolor and acrylic paint, approaching both with a unique sensitivity to light and color. His abstract compositions are distinct with animated shapes and vivid colors. Tamari created the first prototype of the 3DD in Jerusalem in 1964, but it was lost when his home was hit by a rocket during the 1967 war. He subsequently spent 15 years building and perfecting hundreds of models of the instrument. Tamari passed away in Tokyo in 2017.