Ghostscape
Research Mapping
03/2023
Writing + Publishing
Design: Peihan Yao / Yixuan Lin /
Yijie Wang / Anyi Wang / Min Wu
03/2023
Writing + Publishing
Design: Peihan Yao / Yixuan Lin /
Yijie Wang / Anyi Wang / Min Wu
The story of Kitty Jay’s tomb has been explored and refined by the people of Dartmoor since the 1990s. In various versions of the story, there is a consensus that Jay, the owner of the tomb, committed suicide after becoming pregnant out of wedlock, filled with shame and despair. Suicide was frowned upon, unredeemable and punishable in the social and religious context of the time. In order to punish the suicide, people will bury the suicide at the crossroads, through such a way to besiege the soul of the suicide, so that the natural can neither haunt the living nor go to heaven. Jay's tomb was left in the crossroads of Dartmoor, and for a hundred years, there were always flowers and other trivial but meaningful objects on his tomb, and no one knew who sent these flowers and gifts.
Exhbition Photos
Shoot by: Peihan Yao
Exhbition Photos
Shoot by: Peihan Yao