Evidence Board/Crazy Wall acrylic paint and paper on glass 20 x 10 cm 2022

add water and sweet williams for gallantry

Joan Vollmer (Burroughs) died in Mexico aged 28 1923 – 1951

She attended Barnard College in New York and was part of the Beat generation

and addicted to Benzedrine.

She was married to William Burroughs III and they had a son in 1947.

He shot her dead while allegedly playing WIlliam Tell so the story goes although it wasn’t an apple it was a glass balanced on her head.

After the death of Joan, Burroughs was released with a fine as it was believed to be a foolish accident.

Earlier in !944 a friend of the beats 19 year old Columbia student Lucien Carr murdered 31 year old English lecturer David Kammerer stabbing and then sinking his body into the Hudson river.

Burroughs was a material witness and with impending drug charges he fled to Mexico to avoid prosecution and Angola Prison.

Lead Belly did time in Angola

Kurt Cobain visited with William Burroughs

Kurt recorded In the Pines written by Lead Belly