If charts and maps are all about ways of visualizing things too big to see, Mills has also been drawn in recent work to various ways of visualizing the very small. In AndME® from the MYDNA Collection® is an installation using old mannequins, wearing shirts patterned with DNA. At. a time when advertising wants us to believe that the most ubiquituous items are the most personal, clothing painted with the owner’s DNA patterns is probably something we’ll soon be seeing at Lord & Taylor.
—Jeff Abell, “Please Cross Out the Correct Response”, Dan Mills: Detector exhibition brochure, NIU Chigago Art Gallery, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, 2002
AndME™, from the Mydna™ Collection, 2001 – 2002, neon, acrylic and ink on shirts, ink on board, dressmaker forms, variable dimensions