I began the series 411 with the idea that a new land had opened up and we were the first generation that would explore it, this terra incognita.  This, of course, was the Internet, the World Wide Web.  The idea was to move across this uncharted landscape and turn information into images; the name of every body of water in the world becomes a sea of blue; a thousand short stories flow as streams of color. The name of every church, mosque or temple in the U.S. stretches into an endless yellow field; sentence fragments from every single sighting of Bigfoot ever recorded transforms into a primeval forest. 

Interestingly, while I was able to gather this vast amount of information, I was never able to do anything with it.  Only in the last four or five years have both printer and ink technologies progressed enough to allow the reproduction of, say, the name of every movie ever released in the U.S. in a five foot square format.  Every word is legible, albeit with a magnifying glass, and the inks are archival. 

Newer pieces include Man Smoking in Park, a collective consciousness sub-series that explores memories we all share.  Does that scene exist in our memories, even subconsciously: a man smoking a cigarette in a park?  If so, then I have written down his first name, and then his last.  I have included the brand of cigarette he was smoking, the name of the park he was in, and the name of the newspaper he was reading.  I have also approached personal terrain and started to explore information that surrounds myself with the sub-series Time Pieces.  Documenting every hour of my life, and the hours of people around me, giving each a different color, and then overlapping them produces the tapestry of Family Portrait.  Fields of color emerge and then, ultimately, disappear.

Future pieces include the quixotic Every Word in the World.  As the title states, this is a list of every word in the world, the entire vocabularies of all 7300 languages currently spoken.  A little more pedestrian, but equally challenging is Every Car Part; the name or reference number of every part from every vehicle ever manufactured.  I am halfway through Every Television Episode Ever Aired in the U.S. and working on my second piece with my father David W. Milne, professor emeritus of statistical psychology at Bucknell University.  He is helping me with Will You Kill Me, the exact odds of you (the viewer) killing me (the artist) through accident or malice.