Hi Mike,
There is no right or wrong answer. Both the artist and the surveyor are correct, and both works are relevant; even if the artist and surveyor didn't mutually comprehend the significants of each others creation, or even if each did not understand that the other's creation was a kind of truth about the smae thing.
This is a rough analogy I apply about the truth of a geometric concept of space time, and a truth of a quantum concept of space time.
Regards,
LelandJ