Dion’s work in the visual arts is highly interdisciplinary, embracing the history and methodology of science, museumology (the study of the organization and function of museums), archaeology, environmental studies, and other related fields. His explorations of museum practices and installation methodology often blur the line between artwork and museum exhibit. Dion’s research and exhibitions have touched on timely and critical issues such as the philosophy and ethics of collecting, the diversity of museum collections, mediated approaches to nature through the lens of dominant ideologies, environmental politics and public policy.

During Mark Dion’s recent residency, Graphicstudio published four additional charts as a part of this series. In this screenprint, the artist explains, “These images are rather surrealist in their nature. They function through surprising juxtapositions which disrupt the very notion of the function charts and graphs use to convey information. The rolling pin, missile and bottle are there exactly as these disrupters.”