Center Axis Text Reads: “Mediators of Meaning: Artists Panel / Watch Now” - Decorative Repetition Reads: “We Wove Reality”

How does your relationship to practice, your processes and materials, become a unique framework for finding meaning?

On March 29th, 2026, five artists from the exhibition ‘We Wove Reality’ gathered to discuss this exact question. The Mediating Meaning artists panel explores how artistic practice becomes the physical and lived manifestation of our unique vantage points. Artists develop practices shaped by their experiences, environments, histories, and ways of seeing, and over time, these practices translate perception into tangible form. Using the metaphor of weaving, the discussion considers how artists define perception and find meaning by interlacing threads of memory, observation, and environment.

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Left of Image Reads: “Mediators of Meaning” - (Repetitive Decorative Text Reads: “Online Exhibition” - “We Wove Reality”. Right of Image Reads: “(bullet point one) Alchemy as Mediating Meaning
(bullet point two) Time, Place, and the Abstraction of Meaning (bullet point three) Personification as Abstracting Meaning

Left of Image Reads: “Mediators of Meaning” - (Repetitive Decorative Text Reads: “Online Exhibition” - “We Wove Reality”. Right of Image Reads: “A Metaphor: We Wove. We Weave. (line break) Perception as outcome. A marker of Understanding. (bullet point one) Defining Percieving (Qualitative & Embodied): as a relational process of weaving environmental data or stimulus, leading to outcomes of new perceptions and/or meaning.”

Left of Image Reads: “Mediators of Meaning” - (Repetitive Decorative Text Reads: “Online Exhibition” - “We Wove Reality”. Right of Image Reads: “Defining Meaning: (bullet point one) Meaning: (bullet point two) Cambridge's Definition: what it expresses or represents
(bullet point three) Insertion: culturally grounded understanding of…what it expresses or represents.”

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Agenda & Broad Question Transcript
Artists' Introductions (5 min) Each participant gives their name, pronouns, and where they are based Visual Descriptions
Framing Conversation (5 min) Threads: Frame discussion around themes in the exhibition Share three sections & conversion structure
Alchemy as Mediating Meaning: (20 min) Paula Mans & Kareem Siddiqui (Root / 2025) Can you speak to your relationship with layering and texture? What meaning do they bring to the process and symbolism in the work? (The Kind of Quiet that Gathers Lightning / 2022) Can you speak to the idea of gathering in relation to your process using texture/abstract patterning to develop figurative images? (The Truth of the Matter) Can you speak to your relationship with the materials you have? Specifically regarding symbolism and the process of bringing them together? How does meaning shift for you throughout your process of sitting and shaping these pieces, like The Truth of the Matter? (The Visceral Agency of Man) Can you speak to the relationship between fiber-based materials and the juxtaposition of metal/sharpness?
*Time, Place, and the Abstraction of Meaning - (20 min):* Drew Sisk & Sonia Litynskyj (On This Day) Can you explain to viewers how the global events shared in your piece are selected? What narratives in media were you intending to reposition/reframe at the conception of the work? -What were your thoughts on the concepts of time and location during this period? In your experience, over time, how have changes in the information displayed impacted the meaning you take from the work? (Two of Four Pillars of OOP), Can you speak to your relationship between lineage and time? How does the weaving of past and present help you find meaning in your work? (Crossface), Can you speak to the materiality of time in this piece and your initial intentions? In contrast, what meaning did you find after the gesture of embroidery or through the process?
*Personification as Abstracting Meaning - (20 min):* Eve White (Innermost) Can you speak to your relationship between the sublime and containment? What meaning do you find in relation to selfhood as you work with the cube? (Eclipse) Can you speak to the meaning you found or intended with the inclusion of a strong brick ground and what's captured of the sky?

Agenda & Broad Question Transcript

Artists' Introductions (5 min)

Each participant gives their name, pronouns, and where they are based

Visual Descriptions

Framing Conversation (5 min)

Threads:

Frame discussion around themes in the exhibition

Share three sections & conversion structure

Alchemy as Mediating Meaning: (20 min)

Paula Mans & Kareem Siddiqui

(Root / 2025) Can you speak to your relationship with layering and texture? What meaning do they bring to the process and symbolism in the work? (The Kind of Quiet that Gathers Lightning / 2022) Can you speak to the idea of gathering in relation to your process using texture/abstract patterning to develop figurative images?

(The Truth of the Matter) Can you speak to your relationship with the materials you have? Specifically regarding symbolism and the process of bringing them together? How does meaning shift for you throughout your process of sitting and shaping these pieces, like The Truth of the Matter? (The Visceral Agency of Man) Can you speak to the relationship between fiber-based materials and the juxtaposition of metal/sharpness?

Time, Place, and the Abstraction of Meaning - (20 min):

Drew Sisk & Sonia Litynskyj

(On This Day) Can you explain to viewers how the global events shared in your piece are selected? What narratives in media were you intending to reposition/reframe at the conception of the work?

-What were your thoughts on the concepts of time and location during this period? In your experience, over time, how have changes in the information displayed impacted the meaning you take from the work?

(Two of Four Pillars of OOP), Can you speak to your relationship between lineage and time? How does the weaving of past and present help you find meaning in your work? (Crossface), Can you speak to the materiality of time in this piece and your initial intentions? In contrast, what meaning did you find after the gesture of embroidery or through the process?

Personification as Abstracting Meaning - (20 min):

Eve White

(Innermost) Can you speak to your relationship between the sublime and containment? What meaning do you find in relation to selfhood as you work with the cube? (Eclipse) Can you speak to the meaning you found or intended with the inclusion of a strong brick ground and what's captured of the sky?

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How does your relationship to practice, your processes and materials, become a unique framework for finding meaning?

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Agenda & Broad Question Transcript