The Factory is an eight-page graphic short story about the search for identity and an inner voice, set in a brutalist society dominated by technology and a relentless drive for efficiency.
Drawn entirely in pencil, it's also a story about one: Glitch, a droid in a world of designations and quotas, finds something the Factory has no use for — a drawing. It plants a dream in him that has no place on the assembly line. I wanted the story to be both a fable and a small manual for artistic self-expression: an allegory for the role of artists in an increasingly heartless society, where we are all treated as data points for AI models.
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