Jess Scriver makes process-based paintings exploring the limits of systems designed to structure space, knowledge, and decision-making. Grids, maps, letters, numbers, and arrows act as tools of orientation, symbolically guiding movement through landscape, the body, and thought. Within the work, these structures shift, overlap, and gradually break down, as accumulations of layers expose the boundaries of what can be mapped or known. The work reflects on physical, psychological and symbolic navigation, where attempts at clarity give way to layered complexity, opening space for uncertainty, interpretation and the possibilities of discovery.
