Elf Blood

Well, I’m back! That was a good introductory trip for business, and it was also a pretty good trip for inspiration! The city I was based in is a real engineering design and manfacturing powerhouse, with multiple sites composed of many, MANY buildings. It was somewhat impressively intimidating, towers of industry imposing order on the landscape. It was also quite eerie, the faceless fascias of the offices and factories numbered and lettered in logical order calling to mind notions of some hidden laboratory complex, humming with secrets behind every wall.

It’s something that I’ll store away for use later; The 60s styled European office buildings with cranes and gates between them wouldn’t fit the aesthetics of, say, the Council or EX01, but the overall texture of the site just begs to be used in something apocalyptic, or something black ops. Maybe I’ll find a way to work it into an existing work, or maybe it’ll turn out to be perfect for a something brand new. Either way, it was pretty cool to go and see such an imposing complex and experience what it’s like to realise just how small you really are!

M.