Numbers, letters and cryptic words are scattered throughout his constructions. Look closely and discover common items like a thermostat regulator. A little window reveals Chinese text. A cryptic message. Like a topographical map, sparse areas offer a counterpoint to areas of density and high energy.
Wires loop across fields of geometric shapes, their rhythmic dance implying fluidity.
Small paintings echo the intense forces that lie beneath the surface of things. With Larva depicts dilapidated homes and yards filled with junk. It captures the same sense of ordered disorder found in his constructions. Although McMillen's whimsy is always intact, at times it takes an ominous turn. The strange, dreamlike quality of Bullseye's Last Voyage is a departure into the realm of the bizarre.