The Ones Who Didn't Walk Away From Omelas is a series of illustrations that borrows its title from Ursula K. Le Guin's short philosophical fiction The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas. The fiction depicts a utopian city Omelas that has flourishing prosperity and a blissful community with no kings, soldiers, priests, or slaves, but all of its state of happiness depends on the perpetual abuse of a single child.

My illustrations are my attempts to visualize Le Guin's narrative style of deliberately using a narrator to tell the story instead of there being dialogue. Instead of adding credibility to the myth of Omelas, the constant voice of the narrator implies the lack of equality in human society and the challenge of finding an alternative system. While Le Guin gives a seemingly optimistic ending to the story with children who walks away from Omelas after knowing the child's misery, I chose to visualize the other perspective of the story: there are plenty of them who choose to stay as they take inequality for granted and exploited the child for their own happiness and reasoned that the hierarchy was just by laws and social norms.