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Mark began as a painter. influenced by expressionism, his early art was
serious. “There was no audience for it, and I got terribly
discouraged.”
Instead of giving up, he sought a new medium, discovering it
almost by accident when he began looking in new ways at flea market merchandise.
“Most people think of bottle caps as things that have already served a purpose,
but I started seeing them in terms of forms and shapes,” he recalls.
When he
began experimenting with humble, everyday materials, his work sprang to life.
“When you’re using found objects, you’re not entirely the author of what you
create,” he says. “That gave me a distance from the work, freeing it to become
more joyous.”
Mark often uses vinyl records in his work, concealing song titles and artists’
names. (d) “When people of a certain age see an iconic label like the
one in “Mac,” taken from Beatle-owned Apple Records, they have a subconscious
response that leads to all sorts of unspoken, powerful associations.”
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