This study explores how people locate themselves, other people, things, and places in relation to one another. It also sheds light on the correlation of space and its context, which provides it with meaning and creates a sense of place. A preposition expresses a relation between two entities with meaning being made through their movements and interactions in time and space. The relations being made also affect and are affected by directional orientation, and various degrees of emotional and mental states, as only a few factors to name.

This project “Prepositions of Place” follows the questions, ‘how do people, structures and landscapes affect one another spatially? What relations and meaning come to matter within a space – be it natural or artificial? Visual signs, the emergence of infrastructure, and speech provide building blocks for place making. The artworks that make up this project express, metaphorically and figuratively, how our senses ( such as sight, touch and hearing ) combine to orient ourselves in space, in relation to external stimuli to contrive of and build an immersive spatial experience.

Space becomes place when a physical or theoretical environment fosters life, which interacts with one another and the fabric, and in the case of human beings, life reflects on its spatial immersion. By accessing our senses, emotions, and thoughts, the park inspires individuals to form a concept of place. – Probing the photographs alone cannot capture these prepositions as they do not exist in a physical form, but rather encompass and hold together the entities in space. Therefore, accompanying texts will help to draw out the hidden prepositions.