A guest complaining about the cat is a scenario where the guest and the servant are equal because the servant is used to the complaints about the cat but doesn't feel an obligation to remove the cat because her sympathy is with the cat, who belongs to the hotel. It's the only one where I portray a guest as elegant, but annoying.

The three large paintings of chambermaids look at the relationship between the serving, and the being served. I turn my attention to the serving, rather than the served. The food that they serve is not the food of their culture, but a perfect version of the culture in which they work. The perfection of the food represents the irony that they are providing the perfect version of the culture that they themselves don't belong to.