Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted, 2025
Digital print on voile, curtain clips, wire, oil pastel on paper, tape; controlled breeze Variable measures

Partially drawn curtains reveal two stills from a field visit to cliff tombs (yámù) in Sichuan, China: a figure scans the mouth of a tomb with a LiDAR device; another view peers through a green barricade at a sealed, unreachable burial site. Behind the curtains, hand-drawn Zhènmùquàn—Tomb Quelling Documents hang like silent scripts from the dead. Repurposed from their original function of containing spirits, these talismans echo the shapes of houses, floor plans, or wards—architectures that both protect and confine. Displayed like listings in a real estate window, they gesture toward a shared logic between tomb and dwelling, shelter and possession.

Part of Tools for Speculative Archaeology, an ongoing project by Dakota Guo, this installation examines the entanglements of archaeological access, funerary symbolism, and the shifting boundaries between the living and the dead through fictionalized methodologies and visual language.