Yaxuan Zhang

Wearing Home reconfigures domestic objects as wearable artefacts that carry emotional traces of home. Rooted in personal experiences of domestic life and repeated relocation, the project investigates how everyday interactions with familiar objects generate affective attachment, and how this attachment can be transferred onto the body through wearing.

Situated within the context of fashion artefacts, the project responds to contemporary conditions of mobility, displacement, and emotional fragmentation. It challenges the ephemerality of fashion by proposing wearability as a form of emotional continuity, examining how the affect of home can be re-embodied through bodily carriage rather than fixed space.

The project presents a series of wearable artefacts made from vegetable-tanned leather, plain-weave cotton fabric printed with cyanotype imagery derived from personal domestic archives, and metal components in brass and stainless steel. Through techniques including cyanotype printing, wet moulding, pattern cutting, stitching, and metalsmithing, the artefacts function as portable carriers of memory, enabling emotional reconnection through touch, structure, and image.