Catalog Entry from If These Walls Could Talk Exhibit, Neill-Cochran House 2020:

Well, in the Operation Game, you can get both, if you combine the electric shock of Frida Kahlo along with the awe of Rembrandt’s famous The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicholas Tulp. I got to see that painting in The Hague, and was struck by its mysterious presence, a quality that carries over much more in person than in reproductions. That is the unexplainable thing about great art— you have to be there. I have not seen the original Kahlo, which is an announcement of her personal pain and defiance. Whereas the cartoony “Cavity Sam” of the classic Operation Game is fat and goofy, Frida dares us to probe. So I altered some of her little bitty white plastic body parts. They are not all that shocking.