When you’re on death row, you can either despair or channel your shackled energy in creative ways. Damien Echols chose the latter, learning the disciplines of magic and meditation — and art.

Damien Echols Matt Carr/Getty Images When he wasn’t meditating for hours on end while imprisoned on Arkansas’ death row, Damien Echols scavenged for art supplies.

When he wasn’t meditating for hours on end while imprisoned on Arkansas’ death row, Damien Echols scavenged for art supplies. For 18 years, he enshrined his cell with his creations, until a ...

Damien Echols’s “Crimson Lotus” was part of Day for Night, which took place on December 17–18 at the former Barbara Jordan Post Office (701 Franklin Street, Houston, Texas).

Print the Article; Post a Comment; In ... In 1993, three teenagers were accused of murdering three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, ... I have an art opening ...

Damien Echols spent nearly 20 years on death row, ... She met Echols at his first art show after his release. "It became this instant friendship and instant connection," she said.

Everyone knows that Damien Echols has a remarkable, chilling story to tell. As the most visible member of the West Memphis Three, he spent 18 years (half his life) on death row for a crime he did ...