When I lived in China, London existed only as a coordinate on a map— abstract and distant. But upon arriving, the touch of the wind, the smell of the streets, the shifting shadows of buildings, and the rumble of the Underground made me realise that London was not a symbol, but a reality that the body can tangibly perceive.

This shift from abstraction to concreteness felt strikingly new, prompting me to reflect on how space is formed through perception. Every time I enter a city previously known only through books or images, it acquires texture, weight, and temperature in the very moment of arrival.

This project centres on that transformation: as the body moves through a place, perception oscillates between the abstract and the tangible, between concept and lived reality, reshaping the meaning of space. In the gap between symbol and existence, space emerges not as a fixed location but as a continual becoming of perception.