Daniel Everett

Visual Art – Los Angeles

I am a Baltimore artist who just moved to Los Angeles. I make paintings and drawings inspired by Indian/ Persian Miniature paintings and Buddhist thangka paintings. My paintings and drawings are heavily pattern based, and deal with my curiosity for the power of myth. I am enthralled with history, especially the most recent discoveries, which rewrite history. Such historical revisions make everything we believed to be true nothing more than old myths. History is an ever-changing story with new twists and turns developing every day. History and myth seem to coincide with one another in this way. When I realized that history can descend from myths, and history can turn back into a myth; the power of myth began to show its strength. The power of myth can fill the listener with wonder, mystery, and leave them with his or her own imagination as one watches the story unfold and take root in their own unique way. Taking this power of mythical storytelling and applying it to my visual work has been the driving force behind each one of my drawings and paintings. I want to take the power of my own myths and allow the viewer to climb into oneself and discover where their imagination can take them.