I'm Rachel Elaine Hsu (ˈshü), illustrator, law student, and pigeon enthusiast located in Los Angeles, CA.

Freelance illustration commissions are always open! If you have an idea for a special project, give me a holler.

As a researcher, I specialize in art history, true crime, and the politics and aesthetics of death. My thesis at Barnard College of Columbia University is an argument for the significant visual impact of the Bubonic Plague in the late medieval period.

Thanks for coming by!

Photo by Abraham Gross.

Photo by Abraham Gross.

 
 

Good things come to those who scroll. Here’s my face.

Photos all by the inimitable Abraham Gross, except for the one with Kamala Harris. I don’t remember who took it. But it was a good day.