Embodiment Studio is a rope bondage studio located at the Spice Yard on Voortrekker Road in close proximity to |Gamirodi !Khaes – (Khoekhoegowab for Place of the Stars), the confluence of the Liesbeeck and Black Rivers with the Salt.

Container yards, dumps and salvage yards line the street. At night container trucks park along the street at this location and foot traffic is predominantly street sex workers and the houseless from an extensive settlement around the train tracks and derelict buildings.

An example of aestheticized land use intensification in Salt River which has been allowed to fall into post-industrial ruin by the city enabling this type of gentrification, the Spice Yard is a ‘creative hub’ type space with alcohol distillers, electronic dance music party organisers, clothing brand manufacturers, etc. The hip, urban, whiteness of these spaces contrasts strongly with the land around it, its history and those that live under its bridges and in its ruins.