Mar 3, 2013
Next to the dining room was the "Nurturant Kitchen" in which everything--walls, floor, cupboards, utensils--was painted a fleshy pink. The ceiling was covered with plastic poached-egg shapes that gradually changed into breast as they moved down the walls, reminding us that the kitchen is the place where nurturing goes on for a woman's whole life. Chicago herself did a "Menstruation Bathroom", a glaring white room seen through a white scrim stretched over the doorway. In it a wastebasket overflowed with bloody Kotex below a shelf filled with commercial products for deodorizing and sanitizing women's cyclical flow.
A description of two rooms in the project Womanhouse, from The First Feminist Art Program: A View from the 1980s by Paula Harper.