«Martin Kippenberger was a fan; Paul McCarthy collects her paintings and has contributed an essay to the catalogue for this show, a text purposely disjointed and ripe with
images of amputations, bodies turned inside out and impossible actions: «The finger goes in the mouth up through the nostril cavity and out the eye - socket... your arm is over here, your head is on the shelf, and your torso is on the chair.»»
Examples from an 1899 handbook for railway surgeons provided instruction in medical techniques and railroad hazards, such as this
image of the inside
of an operating room during the
amputation of the thigh by «the circular method».