First illustrated for Complex Chinese Character edition cover of “The Man with the Compound Eyes”

2016
Illustration credit: Thinking Dom Media Group Lid O/B Wu Ming-Yi

Novelist, artist, and environmentalist Wu Ming-Yi (吳明益，1971-) provided the illustrations for the Taiwanese edition of his book The Man with the Compound Eyes ([2011] 2016). Combining fantasy and realism, the story portrays a community on the east coast of Taiwan. There a widow, a cat, aboriginal neighbors, butterflies, a young boy from a South Pacific island who has wandered to Taiwan through a vortex of trash, and many other characters both human and nonhuman all find their life journeys intertwining.