 The work is often cited as a female rejoinder to Jackson Pollock's action or drip paintings and to Yves Klein's use of the female body as a painting tool in his "Anthropometrics of the Blue Period" (1960) in which female models covered in blue paint imprinted their bodies in white paper on a floor.The red paint is reminiscent of menstrual blood, but also can be juxtaposed with Jackson Pollock's ejaculatory motion of his paintings.Kubota placed the paintbrush at the site of phallic lack, which breaks into a new type of female empowerment.