Ghostscape
Some folklore suggests that those flowers were sent by Dartmoor’s spirits, who believe that Jay's ghost still travels through the crossroad, interacting with other ghosts and spirits. So we thought, is there really a ghost community here? Where ghosts comfort each other and live together. We began to conduct more research and experiments on the graves at the crossroads, and to make more assumptions and speculations on life and death.
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Kitty Jay’s grave in Dartmoor National Park
50°37'14.3"N 3°47'09.8"W
Some folklore suggests that those flowers were sent by Dartmoor’s spirits, who believe that Jay's ghost still travels through the crossroad, interacting with other ghosts and spirits. So we thought, is there really a ghost community here? Where ghosts comfort each other and live together. We began to conduct more research and experiments on the graves at the crossroads, and to make more assumptions and speculations on life and death.
Kitty Jay’s grave in Dartmoor National Park50°37'14.3"N 3°47'09.8"W
Non-human Design
03/2023
Design: Peihan Yao / Yixuan Lin /
Yijie Wang / Anyi Wang / Min Wu
03/2023
Design: Peihan Yao / Yixuan Lin /
Yijie Wang / Anyi Wang / Min Wu
This project revolves around the mysterious legend and strange landscape of Dartmoor National Park. With Kitty Jay's grave as a clue, we try to construct a threshold space about life and death through speculation and imagination, and explore the connection between human and ghosts.![]()
Mount Jerome Reilig Chnocán Iarom
53°19'27.9"N 6°16'58.1"W
The story of this grave has been explored and refined by the people of Dartmoor since the 1990s. In various versions of the story, there is a consensus that Kitty Jay, the owner of this grave, 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 grave was left in the crossroads of Dartmoor, and for a hundred years, there were always flowers and other trivial but meaningful objects on her grave, and no one knew who sent these flowers and gifts.
Mount Jerome Reilig Chnocán Iarom
53°19'27.9"N 6°16'58.1"W
The story of this grave has been explored and refined by the people of Dartmoor since the 1990s. In various versions of the story, there is a consensus that Kitty Jay, the owner of this grave, 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 grave was left in the crossroads of Dartmoor, and for a hundred years, there were always flowers and other trivial but meaningful objects on her grave, and no one knew who sent these flowers and gifts.
Development of ideas
Side view of the model
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Room NO.4 / 8
Kitty Jay's Grave
In a crossroad - 50°37'14.3"N 3°47'09.8"W
Room NO.2 / 8
Phone of the wind
In a crossroad - 39°23'08.9"N 141°55'53.4"E
Room NO.3 / 8
A tree in Windermere Cemetery
In a crossroad - 54°21'31.2"N 2°55'26.1"W
Room NO.5 / 8
Spinster's Rock
In a crossroad - 50°42'07.8"N 3°50'26.2"W
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