With process as her guide, Scriver approaches Every Which Way as an open-ended search for direction, committing fully to the possibilities of her tools and materials.

If life’s decisions were mapped as arrows, or more precisely, vectors with both magnitude and direction, what shape would a life take? Would it resolve into a straight line, or resemble a murmuration: shifting, responsive, and mysteriously coherent? A single starling cannot perceive the full impact of its movement within the flock; it responds instinctively to those around it. Scriver seeks a similar mode of making; one that is immediate, intuitive, and grounded in present conditions.

Yet this pursuit is complicated by the forces that surround us. We move through the world guided less by direct perception than by prompts, distractions, and directives from navigation systems to the constant influx of news, politics, and social media. These influences, subtle and overt, shape our trajectories like iron filings in a magnetic field, exerting a pull that can feel both invisible and inescapable.

Arrows recur throughout the work: some move in rhythmic, collective patterns, while others scatter or contradict one another, evoking the tension between internal instinct and external direction. In the studio, Scriver’s search is not for prescribed direction, but for a way of moving that remains attentive and rooted in where she has been while responsive to what emerges next.

Through this commitment to process, the work becomes a record of navigation itself, with the hope that something honest, if not fixed, comes into view.