A name that breathes infinite light and immeasurable life, it drifts between greeting and mantra, blessing and breath, an utterance that carries the quiet hope of awakening, suspended in the inward gaze of Chinese Buddhist tradition.

The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

Lei, the maiden girl of the runway.

She is both the system and its saboteur. The question inside certainty, the pulse beneath order, the fracture in control, unmaking fixed form to rewrite power.

In a city built on noise and motion, she is the space between headlights, the hush before the horn.

Centring on Foucault’s notions of power and the man-made environment, this story draws on themes of surveillance via the broader lens of globalisation.

We spent some time in the studio with LERA on her fly through visit.