往生者及其家屬行旅指南 The Travel Guidebook for Deceased

ZINE, 2022

家屬將金紙以焚燒的方式傳遞給在陰間的往生者，使往生者能夠在陰間使用錢幣，過上好生活。這樣的習俗反映了華人對於死後世界的想像， 活著的時候酬庸，死後仍要繼續酬神。我以阿嬤家金紙店的金紙作為素材，做了一本不同種類金紙的使用圖鑑，是一本給往生者的陰間旅行指南，以半虛構半眞實的說明文字及書本裝幀，重新詮釋對於日常物件的意義與想像。

In religious ceremonies and funerals in Taiwan, it is custom- ary for the family members to offer a ghost money to the deceased in the underworld by burning it. By doing so, the deceased can use the money in the underworld and live a good life. This custom reflects the Chinese people’s imagina- tion of the afterlife.

In this work, I used the ghost money from my grandma’s ghost money shop as material to make an illustrated guide on the use of different types of offerings.

“The Travel Guidebook for the Deceased” is a travel guide to the underworld for the spirit of the deceased in the afterlife. The work utilizes half-fictional and half-real explanatory text and book binding to recreate the meaning and imagination of daily objects.