Come back to him in the evening after the sun has set, and you can be sure that he will still have a lump of clay in his hands. "The day before leaving Taiwan, Lee took a fistful of hometown clay and made a wish that he might once again be able to live and work in Miaoli.
「看他天一亮，手裡抓起一把泥；天暗了，手裡還抓著一把泥，」藝術家謝理法這樣為文來形容李茂宗。離台前夕，這個對泥土深情執著的「愛泥人」，抓起一把故鄉的泥土，暗許自己和故土將有一個新的未來。