Memento Mori

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. 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.

Piercing is frequently offered alongside tattooing in this category, though whether that applies here is not known. No artists or styles are named, and there is nothing on 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, though that is the least important detail here.