Art exhibition features executed murderer in an hour-glass
16. februar 2012, 15:21 – opdateret 16. februar 2012, 15:32
A Danish law student is preparing an art exhibition featuring the ashes of an executed American murderer.
Martin Martensen-Larsen, who's already created a major stir by offering tickets to an execution in Texas, is now working on a possibly even more controversial project - an art installation in Denmark featuring the ashes of another murderer, Karl Chamberlain, executed in 2008 for the slaying of a neighbour, sifting slowly through an hour glass.
According to Mr Martensen-Larsen, the hour-glass symbolises the link between time and sentence and lives up to Mr Chamberlain's final request - that he could 'die more than once to show his repentance'.
"He wanted to die again and again to show his sorrow for what he'd done and soothe the pain for the relatives of his victim," said the 33-year-old law student. "Letting his ashes flow through an hour-glass is a sign that time continues to run out but then starts again."
Mr Martensen-Larsen has been involved in a number of death penalty issues before and was the organiser of the 'Last Fashion Show' in 2008 that showcased artist Marco Evaristti's line of 'clothes to be executed in'. He has so far sold five tickets to the execution of the 40-year-old Travis Runnels, who's still on death row in Texas after being sentenced to death for slashing the throat of a prison supervisor.
