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, guiding movement through landscape, the body, and thought, while encountering aspects that remain ultimately unknowable. These structures shift, overlap, and transform as forces of growth and change push beyond their boundaries, revealing the edges of what can be mapped. The work reflects on navigation—physical, psychological, and symbolic—where attempts at clarity give way to curiosity, layered complexity, and the possibilities of discovery. 

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