Liao couldn't quite believe it when the Cultural Affairs Bureau first laid out their plan; she'd never really thought of brickmaking as "cultural," let alone artistic. So to help her get a better idea of what she needed to do, she visited artistic brickwork studios throughout central Taiwan, and found that brickwork as an art form actually has a long history.
記得文化局開始著手產業振興時，廖嫦娥半信半疑，沒想過「做磚」竟能成為「文化工作」，更沒想到「磚塊」還能運用成「磚雕」。為此，她四處探訪中部地區的磚雕建築，如霧峰的林家花園，才發現原來磚雕早已存在。