Tattoo Studios
Memento Mori
About Memento Mori
A tattoo studio in the blocks that have been Chilliwack's centre since before the malls.
Choosing a tattoo studio is not much like choosing a shop. The category runs on portfolios and word of mouth rather than footfall, and in Chilliwack a fair number of artists work by appointment out of private or shared spaces rather than from a street-front room with a counter. The practical consequence is that the artist matters more than the address. If you have a specific style in mind, the useful research is looking at work, not comparing locations, and that is worth holding onto while reading down this page. Studios also differ in what they will and will not take on, and a first enquiry tends to settle that faster than any amount of browsing does.
Memento Mori is placed by its postal code in Chilliwack Proper, the downtown neighbourhood organised around Five Corners and the five-way junction that gives the place its name. The city's studios gather in two places, the downtown and along Vedder Road, and the downtown share of that is unsurprising. It is the oldest commercial grid in Chilliwack, more than 350 businesses deep, with the sort of upper-floor and side-street space that suits a trade not dependent on people wandering in off the pavement. The scene draws from the wider Fraser Valley rather than from this city alone, and some studios take clients from Abbotsford and beyond.
Piercing is frequently offered alongside tattooing in this category, though whether that applies here is not something the record establishes. Nor does it name artists or styles, or say whether the studio takes walk-ins or works strictly by appointment. No phone number and no website are published, which for an appointment-driven trade is a significant absence; there is no channel listed for the first conversation that this kind of work normally begins with. The postal code narrows the search to the right part of the downtown, which on this particular page is the least important thing on it.
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In the Chilliwack Proper neighbourhood of Chilliwack.
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