This artwork establishes a parallelism between shame and the socially established. With a smile, the woman shows its feet while the bandages fall to the floor. From a feminist enclave, a metaphor is established in which the lotus feet are equated with the hidden of human being. Here, the act of showing the shame, the liberation and acceptance of the model are only complete with the viewer's gaze, which will reject or embrace that deformity (both social and intimate).

Lotus feet is a Chinese tradition of bandaging girls' feet to prevent their growth. Actually, the foot was still growing but it was writhing because of the impossibility of measuring naturally. With this, it was achieved that the woman could not work outside and be more attractive to find a rich husband (both reasons are cause and consequence; lower class girls were not bandaged their feet to work in the countryside). This custom was abolished in 1949.

The fact that the model is not Chinese eliminates the propaganda character of the work and gives it the meanings that I explained at the beginning.