After covering each canvas with brightly colored fields punctuated by stylized flowers and organic squiggles, Millei slathers over most of them with a dense layer of dark paint that has the deadening presence of tar or lava.
He sometimes rakes these amorphous blobs with a comb-like tool, carving furrows into their surfaces. At other times he drags his paint-loaded brush across various sections, crossing out whatever is under them. When he does this, he manages to make oil paint look as if it's made of melted plastic, like cheap tubes of acrylic.
