This essay discusses the way positive and negative space, grounded in taoist philosophy, shape our physical environment and lived experience. I talk about this concept in terms of my own works but also explain how emptiness or a gap are a structure that uphold everything in this world. From music, to the cities we live in. The grid emerges as a literal and symbolic structure for organizing modern life, yet contributing to alienation. Which has led to our current society driven by consumerism and greed. I use the metaphor of the grid as a structure and a vessel, both as a system to make people or things conform but also as complex and of dual nature. It hints towards the more spiritual and simple side of life that we lack today. A lifestyle that is depriving us of poetic encounters in everyday life. I use examples from Stockholm and Tokyo to explain how emptiness and vacancies within cities are the physical embodiment of the values and circumstances of a certain place and its people. I discuss the performative act of moving material around the city in my practice and which interventions are considered natural and not. In my process I embrace unforeseen things happening and let chance, error, or the most natural way guide me forward.