The Heroics of Scale


A seemingly endless, sprawling labyrinth.
A generic hero – a “super-man,” who lives in a world that no longer needs him.
A world of technological achievement and wonder where man can be everywhere at once.
A crisis of purpose and identity.
A loss of significance in the face of modernity.

Technology. Identity. The humbling power of architecture and the built environment.



Excerpts from a fragmented comic created as a response to a previous post. Quotations taken from The Castle.

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