It sounds kind of pathetic, but I put down my brush pens for a half year or more and painted on lotus pods and tree bark with brushes made of hair and straw, and I ran through paper factories all over Taipei collecting different kinds of paper for experiments.
說也可憐，有半年多的時間，我丟開毛筆，改用毛刷、草刷、蓮蓬、樹皮來作畫；又跑遍了台北的大小紙廠，收集各種不同的紙來試驗。