About Jimmy

_____Created by Huang Xiaoyu

Now a best-selling author of picture books, Jimmy continues to assert control over his life. He works only on projects that inspire him and refuses to let fame limit his freedom. However, as sure as Jimmy is of his own path, he is sensitive that for others, freedom presents its own problems. In a world of infinite possibilities, choice can seem overwhelming.

Despite his newfound fame and wealth, Jimmy prefers working quietly at home with his wife and daughter. He spends his mornings drawing, and his afternoons doing chi-gong.ToJimmy, the freedom to live his life as he chooses means much more than money and attention ever could.

This idea is represented

in Jimmy's books,swheresthe

small scale of his characters

expresses the powerlessness

they feel when facing choices.

The message contained in the

brief explanations that accompany

Jimmy's drawings, however, is

hopeful: Though the world may

make us feel small, we must be

brave. Everything will be all right for us—

as it is for the“small people”in Jimmy's books—if we

make appropriate choices.

One spring afternoon

five years ago, Jimmy Liao

sat crying in the lobby of

Taipei's Sherwood Hotel.

Life seemed horribly unfair. The laughing people who

walked past took their health for granted, just as he used to

himself. Now, however, he felt helpless—and he couldn't

even express his frustration through painting.

As he had always been one

to take lifesintoshis own

hands, Jimmy found his

helplessness unnatural.

Seeking more personally

satisfying work, he had recently

left a successful career as a commercial

artist.

It seemed that fate had played

a cruel trick when he developed

cancer and was unable to work.

But that moment in the hotel was

a turning point for Jimmy. He

became conscious of the fact that there is no such thing as

fate, only choice.

According to Jimmy, you are what

you choose to be. You can give up

and be a loser, or you can work to be

a happier person. Jimmy realized that,

while the world sometimes seems

unfair, your choices can change your

perceptions.

Thank you very much !