Huang Hai-ming, on the other hand, holds that the gold in Yao's work serves the purpose of making something illegal legal (in the sense that those with money can get away with anything), giving the works themselves an orthodox status.
黃海鳴則認為「金」在姚瑞中作品裡，有把不合法事物合法化的作用，馬桶鍍金便賦與了馬桶正統地位。