...Thirty spokes meet in the hub, though the space between them is the essence of the wheel...

...Pots are formed from clay, though the space inside them is the essence of the pot...

...Walls with windows and doors form the house, 

though the space within them is the essence of the house...

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Ma (間) is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or 

"the space between two structural parts."

The spatial concept is experienced progressively through intervals of spatial designation. 

In Japanese, ma, the word for space, suggests interval. 

It is best described as a consciousness of place, not in the sense of an enclosed three-dimensional 

entity, but rather the simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an 

intensification of vision.

Ma is not something that is created by compositional elements; it takes place in the imagination of 

the human who experiences these elements. 

Therefore, ma can be defined as experiential place understood with emphasis on interval.

Ma has also been described as "an emptiness full of possibilities, like a promise yet to be fulfilled", 

and as "the silence between the notes which make the music

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