The starting point of this project is Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space, where contemplating space becomes a way of shaping a spiritual refuge. For Bachelard, the house is not a memory of the past but a living structure of imagination, born between inner experience and the outer world. As the inner world expands, our shelter expands with it.

This sense of boundlessness echoes my own contemplative practice and Vipassana meditation. In focused attention and inner silence, awe before the vastness of the world turns inward, toward depth. For a moment, fear and agitation loosen their grip, and calm surfaces as a quiet counterweight to an overloaded reality.

My experience of emigration sharpens this search for an inner home. I increasingly understand home not as a place on a map, but as a state - humility, balance, presence. This calm is not granted from outside; it is something we cultivate, something we can almost “hold in our hands.”

Within this project, I aim to create a temple for solitary contemplation - a safe, meditative space where the viewer can step away from informational noise. It does not resolve the world’s conflicts, but offers a pause: a still field of tenderness and silence.