Factory Girls
Digital Collage
Factory Girls imagines an alternate reality where conformity is rewarded with happiness—or at least the appearance of it. It’s a world where falling in line is the only path forward. Where repetition replaces rebellion. Created as cover art for the playlist Femme Punk plus a couple dudes, this digital collage distorts the familiar. The central figure is glitched, masked, censored—smiling, but hollow. A line of identical women march toward the horizon, each more transparent than the last, as if erasing themselves step by step.
The message is clear: in a world that promises joy through sameness, real emotion becomes subversive. Real thinking becomes dangerous.
Process
Factory Girls was a purely digital build—no sketches, just instincts. I pulled together vintage fashion photography, anatomical scans, soft mountainous landscapes, and harsh linework to create contrast between the natural and the unnatural, the serene and the synthetic.
The red X across the eye, the open pixelated mouth, and the surgical-looking scissors all suggest control—of bodies, of voices, of thought. Aesthetic decisions were intentionally dissonant: surreal beauty with underlying dread. The cosmic ripple in the corner represents false transcendence. It’s escape, sure—but on someone else’s terms.
This piece is one of my personal favorites because it doesn’t offer a clean answer. It just asks: what are we giving up in exchange for comfort and acceptance?
Playlist Link
Playlist: Melodic Femme Punk Plus Some Dudes
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