Ziwei Liang

My collection, named ‘Green Blood’, focuses on the relationship between humans and botanics, and how that might manifest into a fashion artefact. 

I question how can these very different organic and living systems co- exist in the future, and how can this juxtaposition suggest new hybrid materials, forms and artefacts? 

To investigate this relationship as speculative projection, I take the position of assuming that plants have a collective consciousness, and that perhaps in future evolutions they will also cooperate with, or even fight against humans. I imagine this in the form of vegetation as parasites, living on the human body and occupying human living spaces. 

It is this idea of a hybridization between humans and strange plants that inspired me to form my Masters Collection. I present my work in the form of soft sculptures, with an abundant surface language. 

The collection consists of 6 wearable and non-wearable pieces, to suggest an organic morphing of both the body and the surrounding objects. 

The core materials used for the fabrication are wool, leather and resin, worked into the surface of an inner structure and body made of brass wire and high-density modelling foam. 

The colour wave references historical botanical illustrations that have been influential in colour, tone and mood. 

My final works illustrate not only my imagined relationship between humans and plants, but also propose future possibilities of wearing vegetation as obscure artefact.