Mills offers a meta-commentary on strategies of representation: His data visualizations present highly abstracted (notional, ideational) information, yet the most urgent aspect of his aesthetic strategy is the physical and material: Instead of the flat, formal, hyper-abstract grammar common to design aesthetics, Mills provides painterly (handmade, drawn, stenciled, collaged) marks.
—Laurie Hogin, “Haunted Data" essay, Dan Mills, Human Topographies Exhibition Guide, 2019-20
![Poland-and](../../_Media/poland-and_128.gif)
Poland, its shifting borders, and all its legendary, semi-legendary, and historic rulers, 6th century - 1795…
![Contest-Pacific-Islands](../../_Media/pasted-file-28_128.png)
Contest—Caribbean Islands Montage (with nationalist colors, and with lines connecting islands to colonizing countries)
![Contest-Caribbean-Islands](../../_Media/pasted-file-29_128.png)