Ames and Bordwin began their practice by using a variety of media to explore the ways in which men compete, challenge and play, and the resulting social and psychological imbalance.
their working process has been characterized by three essential shifts: their practice has expanded to include a larger collaborative circle in virtually every project they develop; it has increasingly sought to place work outside the usual venues in which contemporary art is seen and experienced; and it has focused on some of the most urgent issues facing our societies today: territory, fear, safety and authority — both real and perceived.
Type A's work incorporates elements of humor, absurdity, consequence and one-upmanship to explore "the ways in which men compete, challenge and play, and the resulting social and psychological imbalance.
The latter focuses more on collaboration, depicting highly dramatized action scenes in which Ames and Bordwin trade off playing the role of victim and savior.
This role-playing lead to Twins Project (1998–1999), which explores issues of competition, regression and childhood with custom dolls that were made in their likeness by the My Twinn Company.
Continuing to use their bodies as a medium for performance, pieces such as Mark (2002), Stand (2002–2006) and Push (2004) assess their physical differences and the balance (or imbalance) in their partnership, bringing into question the role of the individual and the collective.
For Trigger, Type A created a series of photographs which are printed and sold as shooting targets by Law Enforcement Targets Inc. With this project they practice what they call "Interpropriation" or “the act of interjecting themselves and actively participating in cultures outside the art world.”[2] In 2012 Type A had a solo exhibition titled Guarded at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.