Steve Miller photography

Mixed media.

Printed poster, digital monitor and gouache, ink red shale slip on molded canvas.

The orientation room to the installation: the title wall poster and monitor credits for filming, editing, performing, attending, making, presenting, involved and in collaboration with Mildred’s Lane Projects. The Orientation Map of Mildred’s Lane, an ongoing collaboration including J.M. Puett, Katie Bachler, Scott Berzofsky, and other fellows convening at Mildred’s Lane.

2014

Gouache, ink, red shale slip on molded canvas with upholstery tacks.

Detail of Map of Mildred’s Lane, an ongoing collaboration including J.M. Puett, Katie Bachler, Scott Berzofsky, and other fellows convening at Mildred’s Lane.

2014

Mixed Media.

Various transhistorical samplings of material culture of Mildred’s Lane. Domestic artifacts of the nineteenth and twentieth century household of Mildred Steffens. Documentation portraits of Allison Smith’s Muster at Mildred’s Lane by Bob Braine; tin type portraits by Nick Olsen, Natalie Wilkin, Corey Riddell, J. Morgan Puett; the comfort-o-meter of Mildred’s Lane; Black and white photography by Jorge Colombo, Mark Dion; digital portrait of the Ambassador of Entanglement, j. Morgan Puett in collaboration with Rebecca Purcell and Jeffrey Jenkins (photographer.)

2014

Mixed Media.

Digital photographs, molded canvas collage on wood panels, wood table, mixed tableware, chocolates and fancy grits ingredients, transhistorical textiles, antiques, clothing apparatuses, home-made furniture, found furniture, aged tarpaulins, textiles, digital motion journals, monitors, projections, tools, the Puett U & I steel hook, bar and shelving system, tailoring-drafting-cutting-office-table-blackboard (The Sartorius Muscle Table #4) and more, including other objects, textiles, tastings, aroma, digital recordings–sight and  sound.

2014

Mixed Media.

Digital photographs direction;  Rebecca Purcell, J. Morgan Puett and Jeffrey Jenkins (photography;) molded canvas collage on wood panels, wood table, mixed tableware, chocolates, and antique lamp.

2014

Mixed Media.

Digital photographs, molded canvas collage on wood panels, wood table, mixed tableware, lamps, wood desk (updated replication of Jane Addams desk at Hull House), sewing factory chairs (19c.), refrigerator with water from Mildred’s Lane, ingredients for Fancy Grits, Crow Ware by Tivoli Tile works for Mildred’s Lane, the Puett U & I steel hook, bar and shelving system, tarpaulins, Puett designed Clothing Apparatuses, ticking cloth, and more.

2014

Mixed media.

The Comportment Manual manuscripts from The Journals of Excerpts from the User’s Guide to Mildred’s Lane (including notes, maps, drawings, glossary, zines and more.) Molded canvas portfolio with Leon Johnson of Salt & Cedar. Also, the deed and contract preamble to Mildred’s Lane drenched in beeswax.

2014

Mixed media.

Transhistorical period room including The Motion Journals of Excerpts from the User’s Guide to Mildred’s Lane; A Costume Drama of the Everyday. Textiles, antiques, clothing apparatuses, home-made furniture, found furniture, aged tarpaulins, textiles, digital motion journals, monitors, projections, tools, the Puett U & I steel hook, bar and shelving system,

2014

Mixed media.

Puett designed modular clothing apparatuses made of cotton, silk, silver, aluminum, reflective tapes, oil cloth, beeswax, notions, etc. installed with the Puett U & I steel hook, bar and shelving system.

2014

Mixed media.

Puett U & I steel shelving system holding artist packages sent to Mildred’s Lane. The Kitchen Laboratory Comforter.

2014

Mixed media.

Streaming digital data by chapters, the motion journals of the Digestion Choreography at Mildred's Lane and the town projects and installations at The Mildred Complex(ity) project space, on and over the Kitchen laboratory workbench.

The Johnson House Apron and clothing apparatuses from The Labor Portraits in the foreground.

2014

Mixed media.

Textiles, antiques, home-made furniture, found furniture, aged tarpaulins, textiles, digital motion journals, monitors, projections, tools, Clothing archives, the Puett U & I steel hook, bar and shelving system, factory chairs, framed cloth napkins of the scramble scrabble algorithmic games, tinctures by Clayton Lewis, Charcoals by Amy Yoes and the Wholeschooling Sartorius Muscle Table #4 (ongoing projects 2012 -2014.)

2014

Mixed media; including objects, digital, sound, and aroma.

Digital motion journals of town projects and workhops. Digital image of James Prosek giving a taxidermy workshop and the Animal Stories Settee is collaboration with the non-human creatures of the Mildred House at Mildred’s Lane, who have raided, rearranged and pulled apart for their adaptive reuse.

The foreground still life is the Wholeschooling Sartorius Muscle Table #4 (ongoing projects 2012 -2014,) a tailoring-drafting-cutting-office-table-blackboard. Other monitor is streaming the Social Saturday public presentations during summer sessions at Mildred’s Lane, image of  Jorge Colombo lecture playing.

2014

Mixed media.

Projections of the violin practice by The Supervisor of Entanglement, Lizzie Hurst; The building and landscape portraits as motion journals, of Mildred’s Lane; and a motion journal of a year long collection of blue hours at Mildred’s Lane. Washtubs, cloths, apples, tool chest, antique flour sacs and more.

 Washtubs, cloths, apples, tool chest, antique flour sacs and more.

2014

Mixed media.

Digital photographs, molded canvas collage on wood panels, wood table, mixed tableware, chocolates and fancy grits ingredients, transhistorical textiles, antiques, clothing apparatuses, home-made furniture, found furniture, aged tarpaulins, textiles, digital motion journals, monitors, projections, tools, the Puett U & I steel hook, bar and shelving system, tailoring-drafting-cutting-office-table-blackboard (The Sartorius Muscle Table #4) and more, including other objects, textiles, tastings, aroma, digital recordings–sight and  sound.

2014