Born in 1951, Hsu has seen how the earth was severely damaged after society became affluent. To him cities are like huge monuments, with a relic-like air of death to them, and so, as someone living in a city, he painted himself as a monument.
民國四十年出生的許雨仁眼看著社會富裕後，土地的嚴重破壞，城市對他而言彷彿一個巨大的紀念碑，有著一種遺蹟般死亡的氣味，所以他將生活在其中的自己畫成一座紀念碑。