For generations, the arts have centered what can often be overlooked: the complex nature of perception and the deeply subjective ways meaning is formed. Artists work with fragments—difference, contradiction, lived experience—and weave them into a shared tapestry of truth, a patchwork alive with contradiction.

While some may see the arts in opposition to the sciences, there is a unique relationship and exchange with data that echoes the biological ways that all organisms perceive. The act of finding meaning in what starts as objective environmental data is both an individual and collective experience. One where truth is mediated through a complex matrix. It asks us to recognize that perception is shaped by each person’s unique relationship to their environment. This diversity of experience is not something to resolve or flatten.

We Wove Reality explores how artists help us make sense of a world shaped by difference, contradiction, and lived experience. Across generations, the arts have held space for what culture often overlooks: the complexity of perception and the deeply personal ways meaning is formed. Through their work, artists gather fragments of experience—felt, remembered, imagined—and weave them into shared understandings of truth.