Michelle Santiago Cortés: "Citing Re[n]u Bora, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick notes that 'to perceive texture is always, immediately, and de facto to be immersed in a field of active narrative hypothesizing, testing, and re-understanding how physical properties act and are acted upon over time.'"
“A particular intimacy seems to subsist between textures and emotions,” Sedgwick writes, quoting Bora again to explain that texture “tends to be liminally registered ‘on the border of properties of touch and vision’.”
see Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
and Renu Bora, “Outing Texture”