Dan Mills’ Road Map begins with a Cartesian map over which he has painted abstract shapes that
follow a concealed algorithm; with its idiosyncratic vocabulary overlapping a more legible, conventional one, Road Map reminds us of the artifice of all mapping systems.
—Karen Jacobs, Dan Mills – “(Dis)orientations,” Imaginary Cartographies, English Notes, Spring/Summer, 2014
Road Map, 2012, acrylic on printed map laid down on board, 37 1/2" x 47 ½”
Private collection, Tokyo