The Milk of Human Kindness expands on her ongoing, cinema-inspired lexicon of single working girls. Millman’s work portrays a fantasy world inhabited by characters going about daily life – where light and airy narratives mask the presence of oppression and anxiety lurking beneath the surface.

In Caddy Is a Cold Ghost with No Opinions, a woman recounts a fishing expedition with two old men; identifying with the catch—impaled, strung up, writhing. The woman’s whispered narration is inspired in part by the central voiceless character in William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury. In another video, a young woman submits to a job interview, a scripted, corporate Q&A. In Blush, a series of color photographs, a woman’s hot complexion reveals an inner turmoil.

In The Milk of Human Kindness, Millman creates a space where naïve optimism and narcissistic nihilism collide – weaving together fragments of her own experiences into modern-day fairytales, in which the characters visibly struggle with the ebb and flow of modern life.