The heart of the home, the kitchen is the place of comfort and conflict. Dear Womanhouse artists create a whimsical foil to society’s serious shortfalls in meeting the political and personal needs of women. The walls are covered in empty platitudes meant to comfort, but ring hollow and diminish. Teacups floating in mid-air evoke notions of friendly gossip and womanly hospitality, often serving to divide rather than to bring people closer together. In the midst of the irony, cookies bake incessantly, feeding visitors sweet expressions of feminism overcoming the patriarchy.