A dilapidated hallway stretches before you. Bright light filters in from holes in the ceiling, holes that are right behind the actual lights, off during the day. The holes and lights continue on down the hallway at the highest point in the arch, and upon further notice you see that the arched roof itself is in a state of disrepair. The once white paint is peeling, and in places where the paint has disappeared completely you can see slats of wood, apparently held up only by wire mesh. Further down the walls you see the more of the white paint, curling off the walls like bark off dying tree. In the patch of light shining on the wall closest to you, above your head on the right, you can see the the wall has disappeared completely, leaving behind what appears to be some sort of yellow insulation. Both sides of the hallway are lined with wooden doors, and while the ones further away are almost completely brown, from the door to your right you can tell that each door might once have been painted a shade of green. Coming out of the wall next to each door is something that looks as though it used to be part of a lock.The bottom halves of the walls were also painted green, and the green paint peels off to reveal that at some point these walls were all white, and below that, all cement. At the end of hall is a metal gate, but at this distance you have trouble making out if the door is open. Is that a guard you see, sitting by the entrance? You look ahead, around, and finally down, to notice that in stark contrast to the rest of the hallway, the stone floor looks relatively well-kept. Gray stone, laid out much like bricks, interrupted regularly by manhole covers, dirty white circles lined with a dark metal. Huh. At least it's daytime.
The doors lining the hallway, and the metal gate at the end, leave the impression that something is either being kept in or kept out. In going with the idea of things being kept in, hallway seems to be some sort of prison, lined with numbered doors to remind the prisoners that that is what they are, some object to be kept apart from the rest of society, in a plain space that pretends to be cheerful, for the mental health of the guards, if nothing else. The hallway is easy to look down. With everything uniform, it is easy to see when something is out of place, and there is nowhere to hide. The stone floor would also aid in echoing the sounds of running. However, with the idea that things are being kept out, the hallway might be some sort of low-income housing in a tropical area. Walls of cement instead of walls of wood make sense in the tropics, where the heat and humidity combined could quickly rot away the walls, and since the ceiling is apparently made of wood, it makes sense that it might have since deteriorated, if the housing project was abandoned. In addition, fire extinguishers in the center of the hallway are in plain view and easy to access in case of a cooking fire. A stone floor is easy to maintain in the sense that it could be littered with cigarette butts and not catch fire, would not become muddy in case of rain, and is easy to walk on for sandals, with no debris to irritate peoples' feet. The gate, in that case, might have been for keeping those who would disturb the community out. Whether it be prisoners or projects, the hallway seems to be a place where people might have once lived, but only for practical or cost effective reasons. There is no sense of comfort, and now a sense of abandonment is all that remains.
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