From flower petals to eyelashes, plastic gemstones, a friend’s hair or Babybel cheese wax casing, Brooklyn-based gay artist Adam Milner mixes and matches an unexpected range of objects into artworks that explore our often fraught relationships with the things that fill our lives. Identifying as a collector and arranger of objects, Milner works primarily at home in Brooklyn, New York, intentionally intermingling his creative process with the items, spaces, and rituals of his domestic private life. Consciously working against the grain of popular home decor shows like "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo" and "Hoarders" and their stigmatization of household objects, Milner says “A lot of these philosophies are about getting rid of things, but I'm really interested in this idea of vibrant matter…that everything is active and when we're done with something, it still exists in the world.”