Post by Peanut on May 7, 2019 7:14:23 GMT -5
Would you preserve a loved one's tattoos?
Chris Wenzel's lifelong love affair with tattooing began when he was just nine years old when his aunt asked him to design her a tattoo, one he ended up partly inking on her skin himself.
By the time he was teenager, both his arms were completely covered in skin art. As an adult, he was a respected tattoo artist who owned Electric Underground Tattoos Inc, a studio in Saskatoon, Canada.
"He loved seeing the ink on people's skin, fell in love with it," says his wife Cheryl, who now runs the tattoo studio with a business partner.
Chris died last October of heart failure, after struggling for years with ulcerative colitis, leaving her and the couple's five sons behind. He was 41.
Before he died, he had a request: he wanted his tattoos preserved.
Ms Wenzel says her husband had always been fascinated by preserved bodies and by other similar artefacts they had come across on museum visits.
Then Chris Wenzel discovered Save My Ink Forever, a family-run business based in Cleveland, Ohio.
He told his wife: "Why would I want to have all these hours of tattoo work put into my body for me to be buried with them?"
By the time he was teenager, both his arms were completely covered in skin art. As an adult, he was a respected tattoo artist who owned Electric Underground Tattoos Inc, a studio in Saskatoon, Canada.
"He loved seeing the ink on people's skin, fell in love with it," says his wife Cheryl, who now runs the tattoo studio with a business partner.
Chris died last October of heart failure, after struggling for years with ulcerative colitis, leaving her and the couple's five sons behind. He was 41.
Before he died, he had a request: he wanted his tattoos preserved.
Ms Wenzel says her husband had always been fascinated by preserved bodies and by other similar artefacts they had come across on museum visits.
Then Chris Wenzel discovered Save My Ink Forever, a family-run business based in Cleveland, Ohio.
He told his wife: "Why would I want to have all these hours of tattoo work put into my body for me to be buried with them?"
