CES - Tianyu '24

Connecting her skills in art and storytelling with complex themes and narratives, Tianyu created a visual novel that required her to push her personal limits. 

Her visual novel is a first-person account of a teenage girl navigating a completely unstructured summer break in an industrial city in China. As she explores, the narrator encounters an unusual Shakespeare-reading contemporary perched in a tree. Paired with evocative images captured in Tianyu’s hometown of Chengdu, the narrative is unusual, intriguing, and engaging.