Terra nullius—literally “no man’s land”

—is a term historically used to describe a void: a territory deemed empty and uninhabited. It is a term that has long defined the moon’s perceived state of being. Yet, despite its material barrenness, the moon has functioned as a dense repository for human projection, tracing the contours of myth, scientific curiosity, and collective longing across centuries.

This body of work traces the folklore and deeply personal narratives surrounding the moon and stars to create a “gentle fiction”—an orienting presence within a vast field of darkness that moves beyond the structures of mythology, psychology, and power.

In this series, the "void" is not an absence of meaning, but a space where the seen and the sensed overlap.

Through a delicate interplay of light and shadow, the body of work explores how projection and longing inhabit even the most remote terrains, uncovering the ways physical distance is compressed into a psychological weight. Formations emerge to lend a strange gravity to the intangible, producing images that neither fully resolve nor fade away. Instead, they remain suspended—much like a dream at the moment of waking—mirroring the subtle, unseen rhythms that lie beneath the surface of the city and within the quietest corners of the self.