I recently came across my earliest artworks made from childhood, a watercolor painting full of stars, happiness, playful maps, houses, and birthday parties. Strangely, when I look at my artworks now, these elements are still remarkably present. I feel like I’m constantly communicating with my childhood self in order to find out what these personal languages mean.
The Menu Objects archive contains 100 recordings of my star wheel symbols, still growing. This star wheel symbol has a star in the middle of a spinner wheel. The star wheel symbols originally appeared in my oil paintings and collages on paper. In my paintings, I reiterated the symbols again and again in various colors, scales, and mediums. In the Menu Objects archive, I came up with 100 instructions to make the star wheel symbols in order to explore the different meanings of this symbol such as shine, togetherness, celebration, time, memory, and happiness.
The 100 recordings were made through a specific methodology, which includes drawing, painting, collaging on paper, taking pictures, filming a video, cooking, decorating, displaying, visiting different locations, and more. The mediums I used to make these wheels range from art-making materials like acrylic paint, colored pencils, and fabrics to beads, cheerios, frostings, other people’s drawings, makeup, my own body and more. I also included wheels done by my friends and family through the instructions I’ve sent them. Each recording is titled with the instructions I’ve given myself to complete the wheels and a name as the subtitle. This archive is not only for myself, but intended for anyone at any age interested in observing, close-looking, creating a personal language, imagining, and finding visual connections within our environment.
With still and moving images existing together, this archive has turned into a visual playground. Moving forward, I see the Menu Objects archive website as a growing world for my personal language, accessible for anyone who would like to engage in one of the ritualistic exercises.
Feel free to message me to submit a wheel at @menuobjects
The Menu Objects archive contains 100 recordings of my star wheel symbols, still growing. This star wheel symbol has a star in the middle of a spinner wheel. The star wheel symbols originally appeared in my oil paintings and collages on paper. In my paintings, I reiterated the symbols again and again in various colors, scales, and mediums. In the Menu Objects archive, I came up with 100 instructions to make the star wheel symbols in order to explore the different meanings of this symbol such as shine, togetherness, celebration, time, memory, and happiness.
The 100 recordings were made through a specific methodology, which includes drawing, painting, collaging on paper, taking pictures, filming a video, cooking, decorating, displaying, visiting different locations, and more. The mediums I used to make these wheels range from art-making materials like acrylic paint, colored pencils, and fabrics to beads, cheerios, frostings, other people’s drawings, makeup, my own body and more. I also included wheels done by my friends and family through the instructions I’ve sent them. Each recording is titled with the instructions I’ve given myself to complete the wheels and a name as the subtitle. This archive is not only for myself, but intended for anyone at any age interested in observing, close-looking, creating a personal language, imagining, and finding visual connections within our environment.
With still and moving images existing together, this archive has turned into a visual playground. Moving forward, I see the Menu Objects archive website as a growing world for my personal language, accessible for anyone who would like to engage in one of the ritualistic exercises.
Feel free to message me to submit a wheel at @menuobjects
Graphite, 4 min
(Midnight Note)
(Midnight Note)
Marker, 4 min
(Jungle Bubble Gum)
Ballpoint pen, 4 min
(Textbook Doodles)
Colored Pencils, 4 min
(Poem Hue)
Glitter Gel, 4 min
(Disco & Dance)
Oil paint, 4 min
(Pink Polka Pop)
Oil pastels, 4 min
(Sunset Tangerine Cafe)
(Sunset Tangerine Cafe)
Crayons, 4 min
(Dream Room)
Black sharpie, 4 min
(Bold Jazz)
Plastic beads, 4 min
(Mini Candy Star)
Masking tape, 4 min
(Old Wallpaper)
Pipe cleaners, 4 min
(Fuzzy Playground)
Fluid acrylic paint, 4 min
(Neon Diary)
Yarn and threads, 4 min
(Wobbly Dish)
Color paper, 4 min
(Art Class)
Take a picture of an old wheel
(Scrapbook)
(Scrapbook)
Make it move
(First Wheel)
Embedded with meaning
(Lucky Spring Tea House)
Paint a darker version
(Under the Sea)
Removal
(Essence)
Mint Raspberry Sorbet
Make with two food items found at home
(Mayo Sprinkles)
(Mayo Sprinkles)
Readymade wheel
(Star Mayo)
Make with food
(Breakfast Dinner)
Make with a straight material, 1 min
(Uncooked)
Have fun with your dinner
(Taco Tuesday)
Make with a flat food item
(Nori)
(Nori)
Leftovers
(Bok Choy
Make with pancake mix
(First Pancake)
Plating 1 st attempt
(Pancake Wheel)
Pancake mix 2nd attemp
(Second Pancake)
(Hole)
(3rd attempt)
Adorn
(Eyes)
Make it your signature
(Banana Sundae)
On a grid
(Measured)
(Measured)
Layout choco chips
(Woods)
Change its state, mricowave for 20 sec
(Dark Forest)
Visit one of your favorite locations and draw without a pen
(Triple Chocolate Mousse)
Carve
(Star Planet)
Use what’s on Veniero’s table
(Sugar Rush)
(Sugar Rush)
Make with leftovers
(Eggy Cheesecake)
Make with candles, 3 min
(happy birthday to you)
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Decorate your notebook
(Sparkly Future)