‘City Acrobat’, a narrative pop up book, is about life in the big city. The story is made by myself, and is told through sequential illustrations, without the usage of text. The pop-up structures build up to show the story more dramatically.

The story is made based on my personal experience. Life in the big city is not easy. People are struggling to survive in the quick and busy surroundings. They became unconscious about their routine life. The main character, an isolated female acrobat, represents the self portrait of a citizen. She needs to perform on the high wire all day, like the workers labouring in the city. Infinite roads, crowded buses, and skyscrapers illustrate the routine life of the busy citizen. Like the female acrobat’s dream, the city we belong to might not be the real world, but a kind of stage that we need to perform on.