In an increasingly digital age, what is texture?
Is it what we feel with our bodies?
Is it what we see?
How does a screen change texture?
How does a screen change our relationship with texture?
Do we live in a flat world?
How can something flat have texture?
If paper has a texture, does a screen have texture?
If a screen is textureless, is water textureless?
Is a cloud textureless?
Is texture pattern?
Is texture shading?
Is texture an illusion brought about by perceptions of light, color, and form?
Does digital mediation of our environments make us crave texture more?
Do vibrations have texture?
Can vibrations replace texture?
Textural Translations
In some ways, we live in a more texturally diverse world than we did pre-Industrial Revolution, considering advances in technology combined with novel materials. But our textures tend to have a more shallow relief than they used to.

I created this book by taking photos of water in various states and layering them to create pages the size of an iPhone screen. Each spread is a way to scroll through the screen, with images wrapping from one page and spread to the next.
This book is a meditation on textures in the digital age. Copies were sold at the 2019 Chicago Art Book Fair.
This project inspired my project called A Haptic Blank.
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