Two weeks ago, I started this three part series with a post on Coudenberg Palace. I talked a bit about the fact that I wasn’t able to visualize a particular place in my upcoming novel. It’s a section of a prison that I refer to as, ‘The Basement’.
The truth is, I wasn’t really able to see the outside or the main area of the prison either. I needed to visualize a present-day building, but for some reason could only come up with cells I had seen in old forts around Canada. While prison cells have a place in my story, I wanted the ‘bigger picture’, so to speak. I turned to images online for inspiration, but could never really find anything that appealed to me.
At the end of August, I was lucky enough to spend some of my vacation in London. We planned a visit to the Tate Museum of Modern Art. Little did I know, it would serve as inspiration where I least expected.
While I won’t pretend I understood all of the exhibits, what did catch my eye was the exterior of the building. It’s an imposing structure. If it reminds you of an old power station, that’s because it is. Instead of tearing it down, the city decided to convert it.
What I really like about it is this: if you strip away the windows along the roof, and replace it with brick, it’s easy to image feeling trapped. It transforms the building in the right direction. Anyone looking at my adapted version would feel slightly claustrophobic without really knowing why.
The interior of the Tate is, well, to put it simply: modern. It’s got clean lines, and a wide open space for the ground floor, which doesn’t allow you to really see into the upper levels. Thanks to the clouds, there was just enough light to make you wonder what time of day it might be outside. When we started to explore each level, time became even more skewed as windows were replaced with bulbs.
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Even though I clearly needed to make a few tweaks to really turn it into a prison, the feeling I wanted to capture was just right.
Visiting the Tate was well worth the experience, because it stretched my imagination as a writer. While the Coudenberg and ‘The Basement’ felt like a perfect fit, the Tate and ‘The Prison’ required a bit more squinting and mental shaping. I discovered that this was perfectly fine. With the right inspiration, the end result is absolutely the same.
If you’ve enjoyed this series so far, you’re in luck! Join me again in two weeks where I will post the final installment, Places as Characters Part III: Schloss Ehrenbreitstein.
