During this period, the things that influenced him most were the urns discarded along the ditches, red-brick houses, primitive furniture, wood-carved god statues, and the temples.
反而是鄉下的那些棄置在竹林溝邊的土陶罐，鄉民的紅磚房子，笨重的傢具，木雕的神像，廟宇的色彩… …，它們解答了我的問題。」在他做「藝術苦行僧」的這段時期裡，最使他動心的是台灣古老的房子。