Mich Miller - Incremental, Single Source (1 Year 1 Pyramid Jackson, Florida)

Empty testosterone bottles and resin
(one years prescription of empty T bottles sourced from one anonymous trans person in Jackson Florida)
6" x 6" x 6"

In this durational project, the artist makes ongoing purchases of empty testosterone bottles from trans men & nonbinary individuals across the US and encases them in geometric resin forms. Each piece holds testosterone vials sourced from one individual, each form encapsulates a certain stretch of time. On average, one ten milliliter bottle holds one month’s worth of injections. The pyramid in this space contain the physical remnants of one year’s transition from one person. These objects are a site for imagining, visualizing, and expanding our understanding of the incremental changes and moments contained within any transition, and time. They also evoke barriers to medical transition, the empty bottles are visible but unreachable symbols of potential. As this project continues in perpetuity it will be constantly informed by the changing political and social landscape. Anti-trans legislation, medical advancements and blockades, increased gender acceptance and disproportionate number of
trans targeted hate crimes. The clear empty vessels Mich Miller presents become a site to hold all of these changes and contradictions as they evolve.