This project mainly focuses on an exploration of the private spaces of Chinese women, how sexuality, fantasy and Chinese women's self-identity are presented in this secretive and subtle environment. Taking inspiration from Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929) in which she explores the effects of poverty and marginalization on the achievement of women, I found I paid more attention to the impact of social values and their effects on women. In particular, I am interested in the ways that private space, as defined by Chinese women, reflects and helps to develop an interior life that can act in strong opposition to their unique and subtle external cultural environment. “Sexuality ” and “Fantasy” are seldom mentioned topics in Chinese society, especially for females. For some, it's shameful to engage in conversation, even if these subjects are mentioned. They assume they will eventually disappear as "sensitive content" and “taboo” matters usually do. These private spaces, outside the official gaze of the dominant culture, have their own values and expectations. They allow for moments of authenticity to emerge which I am interested in capturing and expressing. These include the despair underneath all that surface calm, the delicate balance between desire and reality, the mutual mapping of the spiritual world, and the pressure of external society. I’ve been influence by my own experiences (including interviews with the Chinese female community) to heighten the drama of the images in the collection. As a girl from one of my interviews said, "There are some topics we never discuss, and even if we do, they disappear, and over time, we never discuss them again. After a while, we lose some of our instincts as women.”