Hsu's sensitive personality gave rise to an astute ability in observing human nature. And, her multiple personalities also influenced her artworks. She once said, "Sometimes, I cannot tell if I am living in a dream or reality. My dreams are too real. It is as if I live two lives." Hsu expresses herself through painting by drawing from various sources, such as personal, third-party, cultural, historical, or daily experiences. As a satire of the confused psychological state of modern people, she paints characters who lack brains or have incomplete bodies to express the various guises of the self. They are like empty shells that lack a will or soul. The theory on the Spectrum of Consciousness by transpersonal psychologist, Ken Wilber states that: “There are many levels to the human psyche. At the top level, the environment is an exterior realm. On an ego level, the body is also an outside aspect.

Each area or urban setting contains its own life, lineage, and memories that are inherently complex, overlapping, fragmented, chaotic, and even contradictory. This is because such memories originate from the desires, actions, pursuits, and creations of many individuals. When an area or city is uniformly reorganized through urban planning, then their memories are erased and all creativity is destroyed. What remains in culture is a barren desert. Therefore, this exhibition is not so much an attempt to exhibit realistic images of a “barren” but to enact a “pruning” of realistic representations. Perhaps, the featured artworks present a kind of “reality” found in Northeast contemporary art, or just one aspect of “reality”.

As one of rare galleries existing in Beijing for ten years, Soka Art Beijing witnessed the growth of art market as well as the great change of Chinese art in the ten years. In this exhibition, Commemoration ---10th Anniversary of Soka Art Beijing, many remarkable works will be shown in the two parts, Memories of the Past and Windows to the Future.