"As a child, I used to pass by the abandoned Battersea Power Station on the train into London from the suburbs. The lonely, monolithic building was a potent symbol in my youth, a railroad gateway to something magnetic, but beyond my comprehension. As I got older, Battersea came to mean something else, wrapped up in the austerity of winter, loneliness, and a sort of religious peace and comfort. I wanted to pull outwards from this starting point, preserving that original archetype, and capture the ruined grandeur of the power station as some kind of post-industrial version of an ancient metaphor.”