Emotion Container

“Emotion Container” begins with a body that feels too much.A body that absorbs the atmosphere around it—the unspoken, the fragile, the heavy—until its own boundaries blur. In this state of saturation, sensitivity becomes both an inheritance and an overflow, a vessel that quietly holds what others release.

Inspiration
Drawing from personal emotional memory and imagery of fragmented figures, cocoons, and suspended forms, the project explores what happens when internal pressure exceeds containment.
It asks how tenderness becomes burden, how care becomes weight, and how an inner rupture searches for a visible language.

© Image from internet.

Material Research
kFor this project, I tested a range of materials—gelatin leather, ice dyeing, tie-dyeing, and fabric distortion. A lot of the experiments failed, but each failure helped me understand the materials better and find a clearer direction. The materials I eventually chose carried the qualities I was looking for: pressure, fragility, and slow transformation. The final piece couldn’t have existed without these repeated trials.

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT
kFor the final garments, I mainly used ice dyeing because it felt like the most honest way to express the idea of being an emotional container. Different emotions settle and spread just like ice and pigment melting slowly across fabric—leaving marks that can’t be controlled or erased.

The four garments in the series follow a kind of emotional timeline: each one becomes more layered, more colorful, and more overflowing. Together, they represent a container gradually filling up—until it can’t hold everything anymore and begins to spill, expand, and break open.




This project allowed me to confront emotions I had long carried without fully understanding them.
By turning feelings into form—sometimes collapsing, sometimes overflowing—I learned how sensitivity can both protect and overwhelm. The process of building and breaking, testing and adjusting, became a way of giving shape to experiences I never had the language for.

In the end, the work is as much about making as it is about acknowledging the weight we hold, and the quiet strength required to carry it.