Feeling explores emotion not simply as a mood, but as a parameter through which we understand and assign meaning to the world around us.
Here, emotion is understood as something deeply connected to bodily sensations and the passage of time, rather than existing solely in the mind. Physical responses such as an increased heartbeat, tension, anxiety, and anticipation influence the way we perceive and interpret events.
For example, the diagram uses the moment a basketball enters the hoop to examine emotion as a parameter of time. The tension felt in the seconds before the shot, the joy immediately afterward, and the emotion that remains years later as a memory are all different. Even when the event itself remains unchanged, emotions shift according to temporal distance, and the meaning of the event changes as well.
Rather than treating emotion as a fixed state, this exercise presents it as a dynamic process that is continually shaped by bodily sensations, memory, imagination, and the passage of time. In doing so, it explores the role emotion plays in perception and the creation of meaning.