A woman in Edmonton proved once again that the truth is stranger than fiction when she claimed that an enraged attack on her ex-lover was, in fact, a piece of performance art. Karen Marilyn Huska, 56, had separated from Deanne Timmons in the months before the attack, then the situation deteriorated, Timmons got a restraining order and Huska attempted suicide. It was after all this that Huska conceived her piece of performance art. I rarely understand performance art at the best of times, but what Huska claimed her reasoning was to the court is truly mind-boggling. Huska grabbed a cheese knife and filet knife from her drawers and headed over to Timmons residence. She planned to say aloud “I am not a violent person”, then fall to her knees and throw the knives over her shoulders. Huska thought that this would allow Timmons to see the person she truly is and open the doors of communication. Obviously, the first thing a person thinks when they see a knife-wielding, crazed ex-lover is that they need to talk. Timmons and another woman had barricaded themselves in their bedroom when they heard the break-in, and when Huska burst into the bedroom Timmons was able to hold her off until the police came. Huska was convicted of breaking and entering and uttering threats for the Feb. 25, 2007 attack. “Jealousy is one of the most powerful emotions we all have to deal with at some point in our lives,” the judge said, adding “I reject categorically and completely the suggestion that she went to the house to do performance art.” Not all artists are crazy, but many crazies think they’re artists.
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