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4 DESIGNED CAST HANDCRAFTED by us, for you. Shoppes at Belmont 1575 Fruitville Pike * Lancaster, PA 17601 * 717.293.3333 REVELO (Latin) verb: Reveal; Disclose; Uncover #whatsyourstory “Our fate lives within us; you only have to be brave enough to see it.” — From Disney’s Brave Katerina Kuss Fate is a funny thing. It is not here in Lancaster County. Whether Editor something we are meant to they were born here or not, fate has understand, but instead, trust. Life brought them to our community and Todd Geiger takes us through so many ups and we are blessed to have met them. Account Manager downs, but it’s the depths of our Without our amazing sponsors, Chris Ruch darkest days that strengthen us Videographer and prepare us for our brightest advertisers, and story revealers, moments, making us the people Revelo would not exist. 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Revelo/Espial Design Group LLC has taken reasonable care to ensure that the information contained in this publication and its website is accurate during the release of this publication. It is possible that the information may be out of date, incomplete, or the opinion of the author. It is advisable that you verify any information from this publication or its website before relying on it. Revelo/Espial Design Group LLC accepts no responsibility for the consequences of error or for any loss or damage suffered by users of any of the information and material contained in this publication or its website. UNTITLED MARK Great or small, with triumphant applause or shipped off to boarding school in Connecticut as sculptor widely regarded for his mobiles and public obscure anonymity, everyone wants to make their an effort to help with learning disabilities and sculptures—with four nearby in Philly and one mark on the world. was given several diagnosis throughout the years Swarthmore. Calder’s incorporation of movement “I never signed any of my stuff in art school and including A.D.H.D. He spent his high school years transcended abstract expressionism and gave the habit just stuck. Everything was untitled,” says struggling with bullying and his father nearly his art life. Mark’s art is a self-described visual the artist recognized as Untitled Mark. Apparently died of cancer. As a teenager, Mark viewed his contradiction between form and function, together the decision did not have any deep, secret meaning childhood as bad but now realizes his parents with unlikely textures, shapes, and materials. to him. “I just did it.” Or, moreover, he didn’t do had attempted to give him a great childhood. “I like to be able to use my hands and feel the it. What has become his nom de plume as a fine Nevertheless, he struggled with those perceived mediums. I love clay, but after clay probably artist, Untitled Mark’s absence of an artist’s mark demons and turned to drugs to cope, to find metal,” says Mark, who relishes the sense of became his signature and he embraced the name. his high. accomplishment at being able to manipulate “I’m an artist. I like to put my mark on everything. “I was living on rock bottom for quite some time,” the materials he works with. Much of his work It doesn’t matter if it is paint, pencil, wood; it says Mark, who celebrated ten years of sobriety on incorporates a distinct use of angles, raw metal doesn’t matter. I put my mark on everything no October 28, 2018. “I realized I couldn’t accomplish zigs and zags with perceived abandon and matter the medium or material,” says Mark in his anything being on rock bottom. A light switch direction. He aims to create visual contradictions Hazel Street workspace surrounded by well-used clicked, and I needed to do something with my life between form and function. Length is a fluid welding equipment, finished pieces of his early and art was what helped me get back.” concept. His subjects seem arbitrary, ranging art, and various fragments and shapes of metal Creating a better life for himself became his goal. from a heavy, pointed-nose skateboard made of and wood. In the center of the space there’s an At the age of 25 he started taking evening classes repurposed wood and rough metal resting in a old wheelchair, which he says is good for napping. at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design and corner of his shop to commercial work in some Human-sized model planes hang from the ceiling shortly after enrolled full-time. He took welding of the area’s most recognizable businesses, like that Mark rescued from his neighbor’s trash. classes at Harrisburg Area Community College. Spring House Brewing and American Bar and Grill. Size is dictated only by space and Mark’s will. “I He sees beauty in salvaged material; it is the While working as a scenic artist at Tait Towers, he was presented with an opportunity that paved don’t like anything having straight lines. I like to epicenter of his creativity. “New material is too have that offset. It’s just for my sanity I guess.” boring and plain,” he says. “You don’t have that his artistic course. Mark was asked to furbish Rock age—that soul that’s in old material that just Lititz. “It was the first time I ever made furniture. Art is what keeps him sane—his words. Art delivers pops out at you… and that’s what I look for.” It was a big leap,” he says. “I got thrown in to the the strength he needs never to return to the days Imperfections such as rust or dings are perfections wolves.” The series of furnishings outfitted the of substance abuse. to Mark. production rehearsal space for the entertainment “Art has been that one thing that has kept me industry’s largest design facility. His own imperfections moved him to become what strong, so I wouldn’t faulter or go back to hard he is today. Born in Washington State, Mark moved Mark found his connection to art when he drugs and alcohol,” says Mark, openly. “Everybody around the U.S. with his parents who were doctors, was young while building with LEGO blocks has their little happy place. Art is my happy place. landing in Lancaster at a young age. He was then and Erector Sets. He is inspired by the work of I can go there and everything else dissolves and Alexander Calder, the MoMA-collected, American there is nothing wrong in the world.” To view and purchase Untitled Mark’s work, STORY SPONSOR: visit www.untitledmark.com. PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN 204 North Prince Street By Michael C. Upton Lancaster, PA 17608 (717) 396-7833 WATCH THE VIDEO INTERVIEW IN ITS ENTIRETY AT 3 www. pcad.edu WWW.REVELOMAG.COM KITTY BYK As Kitty Byk shares the stories of her harrowing And that’s where I spent the next two years.” Kitty nailed down and shipping it off to Russia,” Kitty experience during the Holocaust in Austria, she smiles as she remembers the other inhabitants of says. “We had no electricity, and food was almost laughs. She laughs as she describes lying in the yard the work camp where she spent ages 14 to 16. It was impossible to get.” The next few years involved both of a work camp, staring up at the sky and listening a “funny group of people,” she recalls, consisting of amusing and heartbreaking tales of survival, including to the whistles of bombs falling all around her. She French POWs, Czechoslovakian prisoners, a group of working for the Russians at a leather factory, hiding laughs as she recounts hacking a cow to pieces and nuns who had been caught harboring Jews, and a few from soldiers to avoid being assaulted, moonlighting eating the raw shreds because she hadn’t eaten meat of what the Nazis called “undesirables,” Kitty explains, as a magician’s assistant in an embarrassingly skimpy in ten years.