Years of close contact with the great outdoors fundamentally informs Hsu’s work as an illustrator. A civil engineer by trade, he has spent years interacting with the natural world, a journey that continues to inspire him to create worlds of images that blend the rational with the spiritual. Eventually, with financial support from the Cloud Gate Wanderer Project, he was able to spend a year-long art residency in Shanghai. His best-known illustrated titles include Boundaries and I’m Lucky to be a Grey Wolf.