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Processing Process is an ongoing exploration of reality’s abstraction through the materiality of rust and the artificial intervention of Rust-Oleum. These works probe the tension between proximity and distance—what is known and what is obscured—by allowing natural decay and industrial preservation to coexist on the same surface. The series is conceptually anchored in The Library of Babel, Borges’ infinite archive capable of containing every possible truth, lie, and meaningless permutation. Yet, just as the library collapses under the weight of its own comprehensiveness, so too does comprehension itself begin to erode in these works. Information becomes indistinguishable from noise. Knowledge becomes sediment—layered, rusted, elusive. What remains is suggestion: process as residue, material as metaphor, perception as both limited and limitless.
Here, abstraction isn’t the absence of meaning, but a reflection of how meaning slips, corrodes, or resists clarity the closer we try to get. The process becomes the content. Perception becomes provisional. And knowledge is revealed not as a stable thing, but as a weathered surface—partial, shifting, and always in translation.
Here, abstraction isn’t the absence of meaning, but a reflection of how meaning slips, corrodes, or resists clarity the closer we try to get. The process becomes the content. Perception becomes provisional. And knowledge is revealed not as a stable thing, but as a weathered surface—partial, shifting, and always in translation.
