How do I properly chroot from a amd64 artix VM into a mounted aarch64 armtix OS image?

I want to chroot into an armtix (aarch64) OS image inside an artix VM. I copied qemu-aarch64-static into the mounted /usr/bin and then tried to chroot into the mounted image. It works, however, most programs don't. Below is my attempt:

$ artix-chroot /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/root qemu-aarch64-static /bin/bash
bash: /usr/bin/dircolors: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
[bastille-installer /]# ls                                                                                                                                                                     
bash: /usr/bin/ls: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
[bastille-installer /]# cat                                                                                                                                                                    
bash: /usr/bin/cat: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
[bastille-installer /]# dir                                                                                                                                                                    
bash: /usr/bin/dir: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
[bastille-installer /]# cd .                                                                                                                                                                   
[bastille-installer /]# cd bin                                                                                                                                                                 
[bastille-installer bin]# cd ..                                                                                                                                                                
[bastille-installer /]# exit

Is this how far I can go with it or are there ways to make other programs work as well. I need pacman, tee, sed, cp and other installation commands to work on it, as I want to later move the customized image to my sd card. [edit]

$ file /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/root/bin/bash
/var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/root/bin/bash: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, ARM aarch64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-aarch64.so.1, BuildID[sha1]=134f0d233c131cc03b87ed000859f62805ead4ca, for GNU/Linux 3.7.0, stripped

ls works via this command, however pacman-key doesn't.

$ artix-chroot /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/root qemu-aarch64-static /bin/ls
bin  boot  dev	etc  home  lib	mnt  opt  proc	root  run  sbin  srv  sys  tmp	usr  var
$ artix-chroot /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/root qemu-aarch64-static /bin/pacman-key
Error while loading /usr/bin/pacman-key: Exec format error
$ file /var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/root/bin/pacman-key
/var/tmp/eqstalxr-bastij/root/bin/pacman-key: a /usr/sbin/bash script, ASCII text executable