Engineered Armageddon

Artwork for the "Engineered Armageddon" from Art challenge.

Challenge prompte were:
-Show us a steampunk world where what used to be freedom thanks to technological advances is a crippling curse no one knows how to get free from. Show us a steampunk world where the citizens flee from the machinery and contraptions, miserable and abandoned, or cling to it because they know no other life. Show us a steampunk world where its most attractive thing is also what's destroying it -- and how you will save (or condemn) it!
-You can only use greyscale colours for your scene, and ONE additional colour of your choice.
-Your scene MUST include a written part. A graffiti on a wall, a Dead Or Alive pamphlet, a thought/speech bubble, anything as long as it's in there.

To be honest, I was really out of my confrte zone. I'm not really good at steampunk. My only reference in the genre is Lady Mechanika.