Milan has said the works of Tennessee Williams, Alice Walker, and James Baldwin have offered him insight in their story-telling abilities.

His parents, Wardell Sr. and Linda Milan, provided a separate "studio space" in their home for him to work, while his teachers offered their encouragement throughout his high school education.

The exhibition showcased Milan skills of using a wide range of mediums in his paintings, drawings and large scale montage-style photographs.

In that same year, Milan's first show abroad was La Beaute de l'Enfer at the Galerie Rodolphne Janssen in Brussels.

[8] This series paved the way for Milan's larger bodies of work which carries similar characteristics in visualizing narratives.

He showed A Series of Inspiring Women (2012) at the Louis B. James Gallery (10) in New York, Kingdom or Exile: Parisian Landscapes (2013) at Savannah College of Art and Design, and (Show Untitled) Parisian Landscapes (2014), curated by Isolde Brielmaier, at Osmos Address in New York.