During the 1960’s many people were campaigning for the legalization of abortion. Kienholz created The Illegal Operation, in which a woman’s body is represented by a sagging burlap sack filled with cement with an oozing gash in the midriff area. Filthy buckets, pots, and bedpans filled with rust and stained surgical instruments sit on a ragged knit rug. It is designed as a circle as to help draw the viewer into this scene of horror.
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