“Designed to be crawled into, the mixed-media installation Mining the Mind: Minding What’s Mine holds two cavernous spaces. The first one displays a series of self-portraits created by Thompson from middle school through high school into his freshman year of college. Indicating his break away from figuration toward material studies, the second room displays a series of observational drawings of cardboard boxes executed in his first foundational college art class. Mining the Mind: Minding What’s Mine is an exhibition within an exhibition: the piled-up materials and objects comprise remnants from previous sculptures, including the plastic bag projects and the map from Determining Destination for New Tire (2002). Offering a parody of the format of a career retrospective, the artist curates his own show. He constructs a personal museum by repurposing unused past materials and past artworks side by side, reinventing them into a novel creation that juxtaposes failure with success.”

— Curator Nadja Rottner’s wall label text for Andy T’s Urban Vision