My work in Interleavings brings together a body of work that treats corrosion, language, and collective knowledge as active systems—living processes of transformation.
The project includes works from Rusted Language, Rusted Books, the participatory project Flights of Knowledge, and a live performance reading of the essay On Rust and Other Forms of Refusal.
Each piece moves through the space between clarity and collapse.
Language rusts. Meaning erodes. What remains becomes a record of exchange, of care, of persistence through breakdown.
The Rusted Books and Rusted Language works take text as a material subject to decay—pages oxidized, words dissolving into texture. They hold a kind of tension between knowing and unknowing, between what can be read and what resists being read.
Flights of Knowledge extends that inquiry through public participation. The project invites viewers to sort through discarded encyclopedias—artifacts of what was once considered shared knowledge—and fold their pages into paper planes. Each flight carries a fragment of that collective record into the air, transforming the ordered into the unpredictable. What begins as structure dissolves into motion, pointing to the chaos that emerges when we abandon common ground. In this gesture, order and disorder exist as evidence of rupture and renewal—traces of growth and new possibility.
The performance of On Rust and Other Forms of Refusal situates voice within that same field of erosion. The essay is spoken, interrupted, and altered—its meaning corroded in real time. Refusal here is not negation but attention; a slowing down, a willingness to stay with what’s falling apart.
Together, these works operate as a network of slow shifts and interdependent gestures.
Each leans toward the next. Each carries the residue of another.
Interleavings is less about conclusion than continuation—where language settles in and begins to rusts, meaning breathes, and new knowledge takes flight.
The project includes works from Rusted Language, Rusted Books, the participatory project Flights of Knowledge, and a live performance reading of the essay On Rust and Other Forms of Refusal.
Each piece moves through the space between clarity and collapse.
Language rusts. Meaning erodes. What remains becomes a record of exchange, of care, of persistence through breakdown.
The Rusted Books and Rusted Language works take text as a material subject to decay—pages oxidized, words dissolving into texture. They hold a kind of tension between knowing and unknowing, between what can be read and what resists being read.
Flights of Knowledge extends that inquiry through public participation. The project invites viewers to sort through discarded encyclopedias—artifacts of what was once considered shared knowledge—and fold their pages into paper planes. Each flight carries a fragment of that collective record into the air, transforming the ordered into the unpredictable. What begins as structure dissolves into motion, pointing to the chaos that emerges when we abandon common ground. In this gesture, order and disorder exist as evidence of rupture and renewal—traces of growth and new possibility.
The performance of On Rust and Other Forms of Refusal situates voice within that same field of erosion. The essay is spoken, interrupted, and altered—its meaning corroded in real time. Refusal here is not negation but attention; a slowing down, a willingness to stay with what’s falling apart.
Together, these works operate as a network of slow shifts and interdependent gestures.
Each leans toward the next. Each carries the residue of another.
Interleavings is less about conclusion than continuation—where language settles in and begins to rusts, meaning breathes, and new knowledge takes flight.
