The author Sung Pei has suggested that Ko's photographs represent the interaction and coexistence of "the unresolved" and "the quietly settled." Director Huang Ming-chuan has argued that they are the ultimate expression of "omnipresent isolation."
作家宋珮說，柯錫杰的攝影是「懸宕」與「靜定」的拉扯與共存；導演黃明川則說它是「孤獨無處不在」的極致表現。