Sight, smell, taste, hearing, and touch are the five senses through which we assemble reality. They shape attention and memory, guide instinct and interpretation, and quietly determine what feels familiar, threatening, or safe.

Alongside them is a less visible sixth sense, often described as interoception. It reminds us that perception is not only external, but also internal, and that what we cannot easily name can still shape how we feel, focus, and function.

Artists are often attuned to these sensory registers. This sensitivity becomes an impetus to create, not as self-expression alone, but as a method for inquiry: translating felt experience into form, and making perception legible through material, media, and structure. Interoception is only one example of the many ways perception can operate. In a neurodiverse world, there are countless other variations in how attention, sensation, and meaning are processed and expressed.