Texture of Meaning is an exploration of how we derive meaning from the world through multiple layers of “texture.”
Here, a distinction is made between the texture of perception, the physical qualities we directly sense through sight and touch; the texture of cognition, through which we recognize and understand a material’s characteristics or function; and the texture of emotion, which encompasses the feelings and associations an object evokes. For example, when encountering a piece of wood, perceiving its grain and roughness belongs to the texture of perception, recognizing it as wood belongs to the texture of cognition, and experiencing warmth or nostalgia in response to it belongs to the texture of emotion.
By peeling back these different layers one by one, this exercise explores how meaning is constructed. It suggests that meaning does not reside in an object itself, but emerges through the overlapping layers of perception, cognition, and emotion.