LOOKING UP offers an intriguing glimpse into the life of Robert Y.C. Hsiung, award-winning watercolorist, architect, teacher and poet. This book is a stunning collection of his luminescent paintings and insightful poems -- his two disparate pursuits that span nearly the entire eight decades of his life. From his home in Newton, Massachusetts, breakfasting at his sun-drenched kitchen table, to a crowded tour-bus speeding across rain-soaked plains in Ireland ... from hiking with his grandsons in the hills of Vermont to visiting the dusty marketplaces of Cairo... Hsiung's paintings and poems narrate his life-journey over wide-ranging physical, psychological and spiritual terrains, and unveil the architecture of his inner self, celebrating life's joy and pain -- seeking, feeling, loving, aging, mourning...