Ī: Dark Factory is a wildly popular dance club, with DJs, drinks, and totally customizable reality. Readers who watched the trailer and browsed the site, and readers who haven’t yet, and fans of nightlife in general, are asking me what exactly IS Dark Factory, anyway? Is it a novel, or a site, or an event, or a real club, or what?Ī: Yes! Dark Factory is my newest book, coming out in May 2022 from the mighty, and mightily creative, Meerkat Press. The contest prizes are very cool - first prize features a one of a kind wearable from Sofia Zakia (I’ve seen the piece in process and it is gorgeous) - and all skill levels are very welcome. I made the first and third masks: one very simple, representing how it feels to me to be immersed in nature, the living silence of the trees the other how it feels to be on the dancefloor, riding that moving line between chaos and paradise. Or another template can be used and decorated. The template mask, downloadable here, can be worn as is, can be decorated, can be anything you make it to be. And when we make the mask ourselves, it’s even more potent.Īs I write this we’ve been wearing masks for awhile, to keep us safe, but they remind us too of our own fragility, our mortality: another reason why making a mask just to make us happy seemed like a very good thing to do.ĭark Factory is meant to be something we create together, which is what the mask contest is all about. A mask reveals as much as it hides: that’s what happens to Felix the DJ in Dark Factory.

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