Design Collection

The Seven Deadly Sins & The Secrets of Plants And Body

My collection explores the relationship between plants and the seven deadly sins. Plants’ secrets and intelligence are often ignored, but they are the mirrors that reflect negative human nature in their own way. My collection allows everyone to communicate with sins and plants by their own body. The discomfort feeling while wearing these works is an important aspect of this collection, so showing my design interacting with different body parts is the best way to present my concept and works

Jewellery

Envy & Hydnellum peckii

The headpiece that can clip on the head and use jewellery to make a weird face to show my concept of Envy makes people ugly; the silver part is the appearance of the Hydnellum peckii, the pearls represent the thoughts of envy coming out from the... More

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Gluttony & Nepenthes

I depicted the Nepenthes’ process of catching and eating insects (Encyclopædia Britannica), so the lip clip shows a structure that can clip and lock the lips and keep away from the continuous lure. The wearer will feel uncomfortable when their... More

Jewellery

Greed & Rafflesia

This cheek piece based on Rafflesia as the metaphor for greed that clamps on the cheek’s inside and outside. The Rafflesia’s repulsive odour attracts insects to pollinate the plant (The Library of Congress). This piece will be worn close to the... More

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Lust & Opium poppy

The nipple clip's part-covered design represents the flower's bloom and the spreading lust that will destroy humans. The nipple is the metaphor for the fruit of opium poppy, which is the toxic part of the plants and the primary material of drugs... More

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Pride & Thorn apple

The thorns represent the sin of Pride. When people wear the brooch on the chest, the curved thorns grow from the chests and stab back to the chests. It means that when people believe themselves excessively, it will always hurt people themselves.... More

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Sloth & Titan Arum

The Titan Arum relies on its carrion odour to attract pollinators (Bauschelt 13). The benefits without hard-working always attract slothful people, and they are misleading people to get something by doing nothing. The lazy people refuse to listen... More

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Wrath & Saguaro

The word “control” is an interesting perspective to depict the sin “Wrath,” so the bull ring, which used to control animals (Bull Bling), inspired me to design a piece of nose jewellery. I transformed the cactus’ shape into a nose piece; the tiny... More

Work by

Yixin Zhang aka. Sia Zhang

Jewellery

“My collection explores the relationship between plants and the seven deadly sins, by making jewellery that uses the plants as the metaphor for the seven deadly sins. From my perspective, the plants...” [More]