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# Project Description Wearing Home Yaxuan Zhang Summary Final work Yaxuan Zhang is a multi-disciplinary material artist working on craft and embodied experience. She received her BA in Jewellery and Metal Arts at California College of the Arts and her MA in Fashion Artefact at London College of Fashion. Her practice engages with metal, leather, textiles and mixed media, exploring material transformation through craft-based practice. She investigates material as mediators between body and emotional attachments. Yaxuan Zhang is a multi-disciplinary material artist working on craft and embodi... College London College of Fashion Course MA Fashion Artefact Graduation year 2025 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. Final work View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery View Gallery Research and process Line-up I redesigned representative domestic objects into wearable accessories while preserving their original functionality and recognisability. Each piece has been attached with surface images of the original objects and structurally adapted to enhance wearability. Share this project 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 obj... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Craft & Process Materiality Accessories Artefact Craft Fashion Leather Photography Print
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