Adam Milner, Body Fossils, pressed flowers and Adam's eyelashes on embossed paper in artist's frame, 23 x 31 in. (58.4 x 78.7 cm)
As lines between public and private are blurred, the artist flirts with confession and considers the commodification of personal moments.
Adam Milner is an artist and writer whose practice centers the accumulation and preservation of everyday leftovers. Culled from various processes of living—from sleeping and eating, to walking, working, having relationships, and circulating blood—intimate fragments are gathered and recontextualized, taking form as sculpture, drawing, intervention, text, and image. Employing idiosyncratic display methods borrowed from a range of sources, Milner challenges expectations and hierarchies embedded in these systems. Parts are combined and recombined in the artist’s home studio, resulting in archives or assemblages that offer new ways of considering material and social worlds around us. As lines between public and private are blurred, the artist flirts with confession and considers the commodification of personal moments.