In his painting Flying Apsaras, Hsia brings a modern geometrical approach to the traditional image of airborne Buddhist spirits. Critic Wang Chia-chi describes these divine beings shown wafting through a void of blank space as "kind of surreal.
像是他的畫作《飛天》，將傳統佛教的飛天仙女變成幾何現代造型，虛無地漂浮在空白的畫面中，「那好像太空人處於失重的狀態的飛天，有一種『超現實主義』的感覺，」藝評家王嘉驥表示。