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Hi there, love your art! And especially the little flavor text / lore snippets you attach to them sometimes The grimy wire-tangle of the Factory is really intriguing - could you share a bit more about it?

Hey there, I'm glad you like it! The Factory is just me being indulgent with myself. I like the aesthetic of old, outdated industrial stuff. The more obscure, dirty and unknowable the machinery is, and the more it looks like an OSHA violation waiting to happen, the happier I am. I've had dreams of similar cramped and claustrophobic places and it's fun to put it on paper.

As a kid I grew up spending the summers at my grandparents restaurant equipment cleaning business. I was totally well taken care of, but I was around a lot of dirty, greasy machines, nuts and bolts and the sound of welding and metal grinding. I liked to play in the giant bin of packing peanuts and help my grandparents scrape grease. There were definitely dingey, claustrophobic rooms full of tools, chemicals and spare machine parts, and a vat of acid that stripped grease off of things (or your hand if you were stupid enough to put it in there). Did this have an influence on my art? Maybe.

LASTLY, I like to draw scenes that show places where there's a lot of...despair?... I guess. Something about the idea of a place where things are so bad they can't get worse is kind of cathartic. In the Factory, conditions have deteriorated to this point, so there's no bad thing left to worry about. Things will also never improve and they'll never leave, so they don't have the burden of hoping and....being disappointed I suppose? I think this scenario soothes my anxiety, which always dreads the worst. At the Factory the worst has occurred, so there *is* no anxiety.

Ok this got pretty long winded, so if you read it, thanks! If you want to know more about individual character lore let me know. ❤️