I noticed that in Japanese shopping malls and convenience stores, women's items are often 'thoughtfully' wrapped in black or opaque paper bags when shopping. In public spaces, women's items are often unconsciously labelled as "shy items". With the evolution of social and linguistic systems, menstruation has taken on more subtle synonyms in colloquial culture, such as 'stomachache' and 'diarrhoea', and most women are even subconsciously taught to endure menstrual cramps. Seemingly ordinary everyday feminine objects were often associated with filth, evil, taboos and were seen as symbols of impurity. The socially invisible nature of menstruation has added many "synonyms" to this ordinary physiological phenomenon, and the metaphors behind seemingly ordinary feminine objects can inadvertently put social pressure on women.
There are still many countries around the world where women are facing menstrual poverty. The average number of days a woman spends on her period is 5.8 days, and the average woman needs to change her sanitary napkin once a day for four hours, while the average woman needs 29 sanitary napkins a month. "I also wrapped the sanitary napkins in black tape and made them into a giant flower. The flower is a symbol of plant reproduction and the black wrapping symbolises the invisibility of the flower, as a metaphor for the pressure on women in our society. The work is then placed in a public place and more people are invited to participate in the discussion of the work, leading participants to record the physiological cycle of themselves, their partners or female members of the family, in an interactive way, trying to draw more people's attention to the issue of female physiological pain, and to draw society's attention to women's space through a participatory exhibition.