“Figuring” is explored as a dynamic and emergent process situated in the interplay between thought, feeling, and sensory experience. The contribution posits that figuring is a contingent, fluid, and fundamental human activity that operates within specific environments, forming, and being informed by various agencies such as sound, light, movement, and curiosity. By drawing on its etymological roots, figuring encompasses multiple meanings, from shaping to imagining and transforming. This process is likened to atmospheric changes and emotional shifts, emphasizing its transitory and interrelated nature. The text questions how these ephemeral experiences can be artistically recorded and presented without reducing their complexity, suggesting that modes of diagramming might serve as a method for capturing this contingent practice. Emphasizing the reciprocal relationship between figuring (verb) and figure (noun), it describes an evolving act of sense-making that transforms understanding and understands transformation. Ultimately, figuring is presented as an embodied, performative act essential for (artistic) research that engages with the world in a state of becoming, where inner and outer realities intermingle through various contingent agencies.