Building sandcastles on the beaches of Massachusetts is the perfect way to start a life long love with making which Mark Del Guidice continues to this day.

In Episode 40 of Why Make? we talk with Mark about growing up in a working class family which may have been short on experiences in the arts, but, was long on nurturing and probably at the heart of this psychology student turned supermarket managers discovery of his hands as the tools he wanted most to work with!

After discovering the Boston University Program in Artisanry and becoming the last person to enroll in it before it went defunct in 1985 Mark went on to join some of the most well known woodworking co-ops of the Boston area to start his journey. Del Guidice’s aha moment occurred when, as an avid gardener, he built himself a gardening cabinet and adorned it with Morse Code and his own language of made up hieroglyphics. This became an intuitive way for Mark “to say something without having to say something”

So, as we struggle to pronounce Mark Del Guidice’s name… we manage to get him to talk about a vibrant career that embraces the creation of a language of self expression.