山浊 (Shan Zhuo)

Under the starry sky, a young Iveta asks questions of the stars. Two civilizations that were meant to always stay separate meet, and transcending time, search to find their own answers...

Xiao Lin returns to her hometown after many years. and after seeing her former childhood town and friend, she remembers memories like a silent movie...

\[Submission for Yaoqi Village] \[Submission for China Academy of Art] Have you ever felt like this before? Like you're stuck, frozen in time, not sinking, but still exhausting yourself every day. An old short story drawn in 2021. It's hard to recreate how I felt then. There's no words because I didn't know what and how to say it. Lacking self-control, I could only draw this to comfort myself the best that I could. This is for our disjointed, disassociated, average lives. Dedicated to every ordinary person.

In this world sits an endlessly tall tower. The inhabitants work tirelessly to reach the tower as soon as they can, but when asked why, not a single person can answer...