10 Serial Killers Who Later Became Artists
They say that art is supposed to reflect reality — that art is supposed to reflect everything from the beauty of nature we enjoy, like a sunset on a serene evening, to the darkest, most disturbing facets of our minds, and everything in between. Some art is designed to peacefully please the senses, while other art is intended to offend, to be dissonant in nature, and to challenge the better senses of the one experiencing the art. Human art has been around since prehistory, a very, very long time, and from what we know, it’s at least 700,000 years old. It’s one of humanity’s oldest traditions, and is something so built in to the fundamental fabric of the human experience, that it manifests itself wherever humans appear in one form or another.
Sometimes, art finds its expression within the deep, dark, sterile walls of a prison. The very design of the prison is to remove the prisoners from sight and mind to the maximum amount possible, they become literally numbers, former human beings that are often forgotten about. But even people behind bars have a story to tell, no matter how heinous their crimes.
Redemption is a powerful thing and the passionate spirit of the individual doesn’t die just because they’ve committed terrible crimes and ended up behind bars. Maybe, just maybe, we can find a bit of inspiration in the raw humanity of the people who…
