BULK STYLES Behind the Art at Your Favorite Local Restaurants BY AVA BOURBEAU
Who needs a fake I.D. when you can just have your mom buy your
We approached Mark to help us try to entwine art within the Food
spray paint for you? Despite what you might expect from a par-
Issue because he’s done many of the murals you see in your fa-
mom supported his graffiti career. And thankfully it wasn’t ‘just a
how the two — art and food — have always been of similar kin.
ent whose son is spray painting abandoned buildings, Mark Bulk’s
phase’ for Mark.
vorite local restaurants. Mark already had quite a few ideas about
“Of any version of art in the world, I think that food is the ultimate
“Starting out as a young guy who does graffiti, no one’s going to
form. When you cook onions in the pan, there’s a sizzle; sound,
money — it’s not about the money, but it is my career — and I think
of caramelized onions. You eat with your eyes. People will say they
let you paint any wall. I look at all the years that I didn’t make any about the countless hours that I spent going to spots and painting.
noise. Tinging of the bowl; A kitchen has its own song. The smell don’t like foods not because of the way they taste, but because of
Even when my friends that I would paint with would say ‘You went
the way they feel,” said Mark.
They’d say to me ‘you’re gonna do it.’ If I was doing it like that then
Food uses all of the senses very literally, while Mark’s art uses
back?’ and I would say ‘I had to. I had to roll that out and redo it.’
I’m gonna do it,” he said.
them more subtly, saying, “I’ve actually seen paintings that I’ve tasted. Like damn, I’m getting bubble gum.”
LYNORA’S
Take me to Lynora’s “With Lynora’s brand they have the mom and pop thing but then it’s also a really young and hip generation. I would say the direction
for those was, let’s keep it really beautiful and classy and kind of fun. Lynora’s is very feminine. Everything I’ve done for them has been women and I think that’s very empowering for that brand. I think a lot of the things I’ve done for Lynora’s have shown women
in a very independent way.”
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