Only two things can be said for sure, noted Ni Tsai-chin, chairman of the graduate institute of fine arts at Fokuang University. Firstly, Lee Shi-chi, this man who has been intimately involved with modern art for the last 40 years, has a profound love of traditional vocabulary. Secondly, Kinmen, caught between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait, is where Lee has his roots.
唯一可以確定的是，誠如佛光大學藝術研究所教授倪再沁所言，四十年來與當代藝術密切接軌的李錫奇，對傳統語彙有著深深的眷戀，而兩岸之間擺盪的金門是李錫奇的根。