© 2022 Daisy Ziyan Zhang
Frozen Forces
Pseudo Fashion; at MIT, 2021Exhibited at MIT Museum
This project embraces the beauty of aging. It explores the concept of intelligent skin from developing idiosyncratic material characteristics. Through the fusion of two everyday materials, a new fabric was created that amplifies wrinkles, celebrating the traces of wearing history instead of a constantly refreshed “newness”. This textile freezes forces that are applied to the fabric while being (almost) infinitely malleable. Every use, every interaction and movement transcribes a unique crease, creating a sculptable piece of garment as a custody of memory.
Special thanks to instructor Skylar Tibbits