Kexin Xiao
About
The Death Museum
2022
This project is about that - some thoughts on death and how to cope with it. When I saw the bow that appeared in the news reports after the crash of MU5735, I was saddened to suddenly realise that without realising it, we had been through a lot of deaths. It was as if I knew about death naturally. But is this right? How does everyone else feel about death? How long do we grieve over death?
In the design of the museum, the ground floor belongs to the "strangers", perhaps the "sufferers" we have seen on television, whose regrets and sorrows we empathise with.
On the second floor, perhaps, are friends unrelated to us, such as pets. The third floor is family members, such as grandfather.
The picture book unfolds with the death of Grandpa, describing the process of Little girl collecting the fan in the museum. Death is sad, but sadness is fallible. We perceive the pain of different deaths differently, just as a museum has floors high and low.
We all have strong healing powers and will hold all of our love and memories of the deceased in the museum.