Timber roof trusses repeat in deep symmetry down the length of the attic space. Steel cross-bracing and white-painted hardwood beams angle sharply to a central walkway. The concrete floor is bare, scuffed with decades of grit. Overhead, a single circular vent sits flush in the tongue-and-groove ceiling. Light enters from narrow openings on each side, cool and diffused. At the far end, a doorway glows warm against the grey. This attic sits above one of the former psychiatric asylum complexes in New South Wales. The institution operated from the nineteenth century through to its eventual closure and abandonment. Wards, dormitories, and service buildings spread across extensive grounds, many now deteriorating behind locked gates.