I’ve created oh-so-many worlds
For the dream factory
To film its stories
Police stations
And hospitals
Apartment buildings
And condemned spaces
Secret headquarters
And schools of magic
I’ve dressed them up
And knocked them down
Repainted
Refloored
Relit
The light of goodness
The darkness of evil
And all the brilliant colours
Of neither here
Nor there
But in all these many years
Not once has this space played
Its true nature
As history played out
For a century of despair
Because Hollywood
Does not like to tell
Stories of tragedy
Unless good
Ultimately triumphs
And evil
Is vanquished
Or unless
Tragedy is served up
As comedy
None of these outcomes
Were plausible
In the halls
Of the insane
And their patients
Riverview Mental Hospital (1904-2012)
Coquitlam
British Columbia, Canada
On location for The Magicians, 2016
I think this’ll be fun. =)
I’m calling this series Variations on a Hallway.