The agency that commissioned the work wanted it to be explicitly about the incident, but Wang preferred not to revisit the horror of what had happened. And he didn't want to do a statue of Pai Hsiao-yen as a memorial. Instead he took "a mother's love" for its conceptual focus. "In fact, the human heart is usually benevolent and tender.
當時委託單位希望以「事件性」為主，然而王秀杞並不想重現案件的驚悚過程，也不想雕塑白曉燕的容貌作為追悼，而是以「天下慈母心」的理念來表現。