XXX
Signed Print
Harland Miller
97 x 70cm, Edition of 75, Screenprint, 2023
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Meaning & Analysis
XXX is a 2023 silkscreen by Harland Miller, depicting saturated, almost luminous field of reds and oranges behind bold white letters. The composition is simple but arresting: three large “X”s stacked vertically, their edges slightly blurred, as if pressed down in haste or faded over time. The surface texture, uneven in places, reinforces the sense of something printed, handled, and worn.
While it departs from the Penguin-inspired works Miller is best known for, XXX shares their preoccupation with language as image. Here, the letters are stripped of narrative context, but still loaded with meaning. “XXX” might suggest affection, anonymity, censorship, or desire - all possibilities left open for the viewer to interpret. There’s a playful ambiguity in the work, typical of Miller’s approach: he draws from familiar graphic forms, but leaves room for contradiction and doubt. The print feels deliberately pitched between celebration and critique, a fitting gesture for an artist whose work often toys with the tension between sincerity and irony, surface and subtext.
