The reading is Fukasawa, Naoto, and Jane Fulton Suri. Embodiment. Phaidon Press Limited, 2018.
Reading about embodiment, I do agree that design is not only about shape and form itself. It consist more than that what the eyes see and speaks to the hearts. It also make me realise that an artwork might actually not only consist of one single embodiment… There might be different embodiment throughout the different process, locations, lighting of which it is displayed. It might even changes over time and create an evolving embodiment of the design itself. Actually, maybe the embodiment of a design or artwork might never be constant forever (unless it never being moved and the environment never changes, maybe… But time does change…Well…. ). A really eye-opening idea.
The topic is a really interesting topic that might not be understood by those who doesn’t really feel it. Not that I understand it the most but I believe it I do understand it more than some people. It happened sometime ago (I can’t remember) when I heard my friend’s comment on travelling artwork saying that the artwork would still be the same wherever it is while in my opinion it will be very different depending on the way the exhibition is held and curated. Well, it is indeed might not be the intention of the artist to have their artwork being displayed in various environment.
I hope more people will put effort to sense more of the embodiment of different things hence able to see things far beyond what the eyes actually see.