On the ironing board, the patchwork of pictures and words is based on the old erotic magazine The Sensual Unicorn Magazine with zero nutritional value in the 1990s as a reference. The so-called low-level and obscene pornography without any aesthetics is deliberately selected. After cropping, the rest of the images are female body parts, which are then copied on the fabric. In the way of children’s flashcards, A to Z match the pictures (for women) and the derogatory language.

“Ironing” has always been regarded as a housework belonging to women, which means a kind of obedience, order and labour, day after day. This time, what has to be ironed hard (which also implies obedience in reading and learning) has been replaced with a female negative label “textbook”.

The work forces the audience to look directly at the secular labelling of women, whether visible or invisible. Women were once obediently indoctrinated with these concepts and accepted them silently, like brainwashing. Through the iron and the ironing board, the work attempts to create a scene to complain about the bodies of women who are discriminated against as “sex dolls”, and see if distorted human nature can be flattened again!