The 7 paintings on view operate from the position that certainty is elusive. The moments that make up each of Miller’s compositions are a series of approximations and paradoxes. Each element is a divergence and with each divergence comes another prospect. Miller avoids heuristics in favor of circuitous methods of inference. She employs an evolving cycle of motifs that can be gestural or diagrammatic in appearance, but their specificity has been recast in context. Not only is their application among the works in the show mutable, but even within a single work the same motif may be engaged in conflicting purposes. 

With its circular motion and formal structure, the video is a fitting analogy for Miller’s work. Black, white, and orange elements crisscross the frame while something incongruous moves through the center; seemingly unmissable, but it takes a second viewing to discern. Miller, similarly, presents a procession of adaptive strategies, directions, and occlusions whose appearances and intentions may be in opposition. Each component can be taken on its face, unpacked, or reverse-engineered; at other times it may just perplex. Regardless of the effect, they take a moment for their discrepancies and objectives to come into focus, thereafter, expanding meaning in all directions.