toxic fix
Toxic Fix
15 new paintings, oil on linen. Poisonous stories of lethal chemicals, used in murder cases. Installation includes cake, tape and band-aid.
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Nice article in deBonjo, magazine about criminal justice and detention (PDF, Dutch)
Stabbed cake: Sleeping pills, Final and De Ruijter, a sandwich with chocolate sprinkels and sodium azide
Overview
Berenburg
Malcolm X. Ode to civil rights activist and imam Malcolm X, who was assassinated when he gave a speech in the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, New York City on February 21, 1965. The silent witnesses on the crime scene: a fallen chair and 5 bullet holes in the decor. It was painted on his 93rd birthday, on May 19, 2018. Together with ‘EVOL’, free after the iconic ‘LOVE’, by Robert Indiana, who died on May 19, 2018.
Oil on Belgian linen, 24 x 27 and 12 x 14 inches (60 x 70 cm and 30 x 35 cm), 2018
Details: Band-aid and washi tape
Ammo, Sleeping Pills and Ruavieja
Sodium Nitrite and Sodium Azide
FINAL
Rat poison, don't feed to pets and loved ones.
Oil on Belgian linen, 24 x 27 inches (60 x 70 cm), 2018.
For rent and for sale through Center for Visual Arts CBK Zuidoost
Anti Freeze
Sweet taste, very toxic, will kill you. Don't drink.
Oil on Belgian linen, 12 x 14 inches (30 x 35 cm), 2018
Toxic Fix
Lynn Turner from Cobb County, Georgia, US, poisoned two of her husbands Glenn Turner and Randy Thomson with ethylene glycol, a sweet but odorless chemical in antifreeze. In 1995, her husband, police officer Glenn Turner, died after allegedly being sick with the flu. In 2001, the death of what her next husband, Randy Thompson, under remarkably similar circumstances, aroused the suspicion of law enforcement. She was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Turner committed suicide in her cell on August 30, 2010.
Oil on Belgian linen, 12 x 14 inches (30 x 35 cm), 2018
Berenburg
In May 2012 husband and wife Marian Heij and Nasr R. from Wageningen enjoy a pleasant evening but after drinking a glass of Berenburg bitters, Marian starts feeling sick and everything goes very wrong. She was urgently taken to the Radboud hospital in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, but her health declines rapidly and she dies the next day, May 13 at 9.30 AM. It turns out her husband Nasr. R has put poisonous sodium azide in her drink. In 2013 he was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
Oil on Belgian linen, 12 x 14 inches (30 x 35 cm), 2018, for rent & for sale through CBK Zuidoost
Ruavieja
The 55-year-old woman Galina R. form Kattendijke poisoned her 60-year-old husband Ad van den Dool on March 8, 2009. She had put hair growth medication Minoxidil in his Spanish liqueur Ruavieja. Although a doctor at first assumed it was a natural death, the same day new information had come to light, that made the cause of death suspicious. Galina R. was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
Oil on Belgian linen, 12 x 14 inches (30 x 35 cm), 2018, for rent & for sale through CBK Zuidoost
Sleeping Pills, Attempt #1
Sleeping Pills, Attempt #2
Sleeping Pills, Attempt #3
Sleeping Pills
The 47-year-old Marie-Josée Vandenbosch, ‘Poisoner of Tongeren’ (Belgium) was sentenced to 30 years in prison. She was convicted for two attempted murders and murder of her husband Rudi. Marie-Josée was working as a cleaner in the eldery and as a hostess at parties. During the trial she appeared to have had many lovers. The woman first did a failed attempt to poison her husband by putting sleeping pills in his spaghetti sauce.
Oil on Belgian linen, 12 x 14 inches (30 x 35 cm), 2018
Ammo
Mixing cleaning supplies is dangerous: a Spanish woman who was cleaning with ammonia and bleach died in 2018 when these chemmicals formed a toxic gas, chloramine.
Oil on Belgian linen, 24 x 27 inches (60 x 70 cm), 2018
Sodium Nitrate, 25 kg
Euthanasia powder? There has been a lot of discussion about the Secret Powder. The Last Will Society promoted it for their members but never revealed the name of the chemical. It’s supposed to help old people who have a fulfilled life who are not terminally ill and want to die in a peacefull way, you only need 2 grams of the powder. A depressed young woman figured out what chemical it was and committed suicide, which resulted in criminal charges against the last Will society. Maybe they should have sued Google.
Oil on Belgian linen, 24 x 27 inches (60 x 70 cm), 2018
Sodium Azide, 5 kg
Or is this the euthanasia powder? There has been a lot of discussion about the Secret Powder. The Last Will Society promoted it for their members but never revealed the name of the chemical. It’s supposed to help old people who have a fulfilled life who are not terminally ill and want to die in a peacefull way, you only need 2 grams of the powder. A depressed young woman figured out what chemical it was and committed suicide, which resulted in criminal charges against the last Will society. Maybe they should have sued Google.
Oil on Belgian linen, 24 x 27 inches (60 x 70 cm), 2018
De Ruijter
The 27-year-old Bart S. from Heerlen, was convicted to six years in prison and preventive custody. The chemist confessed he killed his girlfriend by spreading poison on a peanut butter and sprinkles sandwich. The 30-year-old remedial educationalist died on July 22, 2003, after becoming unwell at her job in Sittard. Despite quick medical assistance, she died a few hours later in hospital. After seven weeks the man turned hemself in to the police. He said he had put a mixture of Sodium Azide and Theobromine on her sandwich.
Oil on Belgian linen, 24 x 27 and 12 x 14 inches (60 x 70 cm and 30 x 35 cm), 2018
Ruavieja
(right) The 55-year-old woman Galina R. form Kattendijke poisoned her 60-year-old husband Ad van den Dool on March 8, 2009. She had put hair growth medication Minoxidil in his Spanish liqueur Ruavieja. Although a doctor at first assumed it was a natural death, the same day new information had come to light, that made the cause of death suspicious. Galina R. was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
Fleece, yarn, tape, 3.5 x 6 inches (9 x 15 cm), 2018
