This project takes the social mechanisms of “Intensive Motherhood” as its starting point, exploring the process by which women are pre-shaped into “potential mothers” by culture and the consumer system even before they become mothers.

The orchid serves as both a symbol of society’s projection of motherhood and an invasive occupation and constraint on the body; the body of the young woman, meanwhile, is shrouded, isolated, and surrounded, reflecting the tense relationship between the individual and external norms. This visual strategy deepens through the painting’s three-stage evolution–from sweet irony to spatial and physical oppression, and finally to the symbolic occupation of the body-gradually revealing the cyclical and intergenerational transmission of maternal experience on emotional and physical levels. By placing the “cute” aesthetic within a critical context, the work reveals how this visual language unconsciously internalizes societal expectations, shapes female identity, and perpetuates structural disciplinary logic beneath its gentle façade.