About

The artist & the sanctuary

Hi — I’m Sadie. Mercedes Domagall on paper; Saddlies online. I’m the artist behind Reliquary, a multi-disciplinary creative practice rooted in Nashville.

A reliquary, in the older sense of the word, is a sanctuary for sacred objects — the small things people kept close because they meant something. The work I make and the work you carry into a session both fit that definition. Everything that happens in this room becomes a kind of relic.

The practice

I tattoo full-time, primarily in fine line and illustrative styles, with frequent detours into watercolor, traditional, color, greyscale, whimsical, feminine, fandom, symbolic, ritual, floral, and bachelorette work. I don’t niche down because the idea always comes first and the medium follows. If your story wants to land as a fine line spell, I can do that. If it wants to be a watercolor wash with something serious underneath, that too.

The sanctuary

Reliquary isn’t just a tattoo shop. It’s the container I built to hold all the things I make — paintings, ceramics, quiet experiments — and, eventually, the people who carry them. The horizon is a real physical sanctuary in Nashville where art, craft, ritual, and community sustain each other. The studio I just opened at 100 Taylor Street, in the Taylor Arts Building, is the first room.

Where to find me

Sessions are by appointment only. The inquiry door is the parchment scroll on the front page of this site.

The sanctuary’s main thread lives on Instagram at @reliquaryarchives — the day-to-day collection of work as it accumulates. The legacy tattoo archive remains at @saddliesdoestattoos. The playful fandom work surfaces, sometimes, under @holographicdreepy.

Part of a wider grove

Reliquary lives within the Common Garden — a small constellation of artist sanctuaries built and tended together. Each artist keeps their own front door; the garden keeps the soil shared.

You are art. Live in your fantasy.
— Sadie