Untitled (Afterlife)
In Chinese funerary rituals, paper made objects such as houses, luxury cars, Rolex watches, servants, and currency are burned so that they could be used by the deceased in the afterlife. The practice is tied to the belief that the life lived continues after death, and that the same material possessions are necessary to support the same, if not better, quality of life. This replica of the Haus Wittgenstein — the house that Ludwig Wittgenstein designed for his sister Margaret — was made in a similar spirit of a funeral object. The minimal, logical, and mathematically precise design of the house was an architectural manifestation of Wittgenstein’s philosophical ideas.