The prison in my head!

I was introduced to the work of Piranesi (wiki link) by a co-volunteer at a charity I work for, which involves spending time with inmates at Wandsworth prison. Piranesi was a very passionate artist who spent a lot of his life dreaming about the revival of Roman cities and architecture. He drew fantastic fantasy prison interiors like this one:

'Drawbridge''. Etching from ''Carceri'', Rome, 1745

My co-volunteer found out that I loved the work of M C Escher and suggested that I draw my own fantasy prison. So I did! And I based mine on a fisheye curvilinear perspective, since that seems to be a recent interest of mine. Like the St. Martins picture, this is also just black biro on A3 paper.

Prison interior in ink

Detail