Entombed Afterlife

Entombed Afterlife was inspired by study of Ancient Chinese Tomb Art. Beginning in the late Zhou period, rulers constructed elaborate burial tombs which included ceramic and bronze replicas of the objects, animals and people they knew in their lives. Believing the soul continued to exist in the tomb after death, rulers sought to extend the pleasures of this world into their afterlives. As artists faced with the conception of an afterlife filled with the most important things from our worldly existences, choreographer Rebecca Alson-Milkman and designer Piper Mavis posed the question: If you could take it with you, what would you take? Their answers were the same: the person they each loved--which, of course, cannot be replicated.

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