{"id":1876,"date":"2012-10-17T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:31:28","slug":"mark-menjivar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/mark-menjivar\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Mark Menjivar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Midwife\/Middle School Science Teacher | San Antonio, TX | 3-Person Household (including dog) | First week after deciding to eat all local produce.<\/p><\/div>\n

I think we all enjoy peeking into the lives of others, especially strangers. Through the series You Are What You Eat<\/em><\/a>, photographer Mark Menjivar<\/a> snaps a portrait of his subjects by simply opening their refrigerators. Mark gives us only the subject’s profession, location, size of household and a brief one line description as clues into their lives as we explore the contents of their fridge. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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left: Bar Tender | San Antonio, TX | 1-Person Household | Goes to sleep at 8AM and wakes up at 4PM daily.
right: Retired High School Principal | Pottstown, PA | 3-Person Household | Is living with Type 2 diabetes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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left: Competitive Food Eaters | New York, New York | 3-Person Household | Holds records for eating most burritos, cannolis, buffet food, green beans, sushi, pancakes, ramen noodles, tamales, tiramisu and sweet corn.
right: College Students| Waco, TX | 3-Person Household | Drummer for death metal band.<\/p><\/div>\n

I first shared this artist with my brother and it prompted our own refrigerator portraits. Excuse the horrible lighting, respond with your own portraits!<\/p>\n

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left: Bookbinder | Boston, MA | 2-person household | Just got back from the grocery store
right: Dairy Manager\/Cook | Omaha, NE | 1-person household | Thinks his fridge should look like mine<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think we all enjoy peeking into the lives of others, especially strangers. Through the series You Are What You Eat, photographer Mark Menjivar snaps a portrait of his subjects by simply opening their refrigerators. Mark gives us only the subject’s profession, location, size of household and a brief one line description as clues into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,199],"tags":[37,125,338,1876],"class_list":["post-1876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-photography","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-mark-menjivar","tag-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-ug","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2194,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/31\/mark-whalen\/","url_meta":{"origin":1876,"position":0},"title":"Artist: Mark Whalen","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"October 31, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"So let's assess: naked dudes with pink masks in candy-coated cyber realities enjoying the pleasures of life. \u00a0These paintings by Mark Whalen are quite strange yet mesmerizing.","rel":"","context":"In "art"","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/category\/artist\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hiddenplaces.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hiddenplaces.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hiddenplaces.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/hiddenplaces.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3620,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/mark-warren-jacques\/","url_meta":{"origin":1876,"position":1},"title":"Artist: Mark Warren Jacques","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"January 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I am in love with Mark Warren Jacques. 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