Item 4: Pizza Box Drawings at Baked
Location: Baked on 7th street.
Context: This was a really cool piece of folklore art. When walking into Baked on 7th street, you can’t help but notice the wall-to-wall covering of pizza boxes that have been colored on. These drawings do not have to be done by artists, but the owner encourages people to pick up a pizza box and start drawing! These drawings can be anything from political statements, to portraits, to happy pictures of rainbows and flowers, to psychedelic marker drawings.
I interviewed The owner Jared about the drawings
BS: So can you tell me a little about the drawings? They are really cool!
Jared: Yeah well it started with one of my delivery drivers, she was a really good artist and I guess was
bored one night and started to doodle on a box and we just put it up on the wall, and then people would start to come in and as for boxes so they could draw on them, so I guess it just caught on.
BS: well this was a really good idea huh?
Jared: Yeah at the other store the walls were pretty bare, so when we moved here I just had a few
pictures hang up, so this ended up being really cheap wall art, and something that people seem to enjoy.
BS: Yeah, do you plan to fill the place up?
Jared: Well apparently fire marshals and building codes will let you put things that could be considered
flammable material on only 40% of the walls, but I have my whole kitchen that I am obviously not going to fill up so I figure when I am full out here I will move to the ceiling, They didn’t say anything about the ceiling.