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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.To Jimmy, 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.
