Del From Hell

Everything Is Stories

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.8 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Where do we go when we can’t make it in mainstream society? As someone who has often battled mental illness and rage, Del Hendrixson Jr. connects the dots between a violent mental breakdown and his struggle to find a sense of belonging as a child. In this episode, Del talks about a successful career in printing that would eventually turn criminal, hitting rock bottom, and fighting an insatiable urge to kill. Following a suicide attempt and a slow journey toward peace and acceptance of living outside the mainstream, life would eventually come full-circle to the place everything bottomed out - prison - where Del taught newly-released inmates creative skills in order to help them lead productive lives at his Bajito Onda Foundation. --- Produced by Mike Martinez, Tyler Wray, and Grace Heerman. Music by Mike Etten. Sound design by George Drake, Jr. For more about this story, including photos by Clarke Tolton, visit everythingisstories.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I spent all night on this presentation and it still looks so boring.
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0:21.6	The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.
0:33.6	The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.
0:38.9	No, no, no.
0:41.5	The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them.
0:46.7	The way to understand these stories is to know they are about us.
1:05.8	Okay. They are about us. So we're in my studio right now,
1:08.0	and we're looking at prison art from my collection. My art collection is a
1:13.7	collection of people that even though they've been in prison for decades and decades, they wanted to
1:19.9	show their talent to the world and I always have featured them and the artists and they have sent me some miraculous art.
1:33.3	It's for people to believe that they have a voice,
1:38.3	they have a face, they have talent,
1:40.3	and their art is valuable.
1:45.7	They're all in for murder, you know, that's it.
1:48.4	You get life sentences for murder, you know.
1:59.4	I think I have around a hundred pieces and I can get another hundred in a week if I wanted it.
2:08.6	The artwork to me represents a struggle.
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