In 1968, at the age of 31, Ju marched off to see Yang Ying-feng. Uninvited and unexpected, he showed up at Yang's door and asked to be accepted as a student. To press his case, he showed Yang two of his works, Mother Memorial and Girl Playing in the Sand.
民國五十七年，朱銘拎著一個大包袱，裡面裝著〈慈母像〉、〈玩沙的女孩〉兩件作品，在沒有人引見，素昧平生之下，直接敲開了楊英風的大門。