You’re more likely to find him with his apprentice, Robin Unau Gaong, sitting cross-legged on cushions in the back, leaning over an individual lying on a mat between them. But Kalum almost never holds that tattoo gun.
A matching red parlor chair and tattoo machine sit at the front of the shop, right under a pair of tall, arched stained glass windows.
Occupying the second story of a colonial-era house close to the city’s waterfront promenade, it’s an airy space with burgundy walls covered in tattoo designs and artifacts he’s picked up during his travels through the region’s jungles.
Ernesto Kalum, the first professional modern tattoo artist in the state of Sarawak, keeps a studio in the local capital of Kuching.
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