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Title: Tribal Ascension
Artist: Blake Everflow
Year: 2012
Medium: Acrylic, Oil-Based Enamel, and Aerosol
Dimensions: 60 × 60 in
Status: Private Collection
Description:
Created in 2012, Tribal Ascension is a monumental visual rhythm—an early expression of the movement, symbolism, and layered energy that would come to define Everflow’s artistic language.
Across an atmospheric field of clay, smoke, skin, and soil, bold black forms rise like ancestral figures, ancient markings, or spirits carried upward through time. They feel simultaneously grounded and airborne—rooted in origin, yet reaching beyond the boundaries of the known.
The title does not refer to one specific tribe or mythology. Here, “tribal” speaks to something instinctive and collective: the inherited memory carried within the human body. Its ascending forms evoke struggle, survival, remembrance, and the sacred impulse to become more than circumstance has allowed.
Tribal Ascension is a visceral dance between the ancestral and the cosmic—a painting about reclaiming what has been buried and rising without abandoning where you came from.
ARTIST KING
Artwork by Everflow
Archetypes Series | The Becoming of Artist King
60 × 48 inches
Mixed Media on Canvas
2026
Artist King is the portrait of the artist Everflow is becoming—the man who no longer needs to disappear into every world he enters.
Before Artist King, there were many selves.
The Chameleon learned to survive by reading every room and becoming whatever the moment required. Vocal King believed his voice could reach the world. Player King searched for power and validation through desire. Beautiful Loser carried extraordinary dreams into the fire of Los Angeles, only to watch shame, survival, and disappointment slowly dim his light. Crown of Sorrow built a life, carried a family, and wore responsibility until the joyful inner child beneath the crown became almost invisible.
These figures are not fictional characters. They are psychological and spiritual portraits drawn from Everflow’s living biography. Each archetype holds a role, wound, contradiction, coping mechanism, or gift that once helped him survive. Together, they reveal the many people he had to become before he could finally remain himself.
Where The Chameleon survived by adapting, Artist King emerges by remembering. His fractured face carries every identity, consequence, influence, and broken dream—but the crown is not inherited. It is claimed.
He is also Everflow’s joyful inner child finally returning to the surface. After years of being made to feel too loud, too different, too emotional, or not enough, the child is given permission to play freely within the paint. There are no rules to obey, no outside world to impress, and nothing left to prove. Color, movement, instinct, and imagination are allowed to create their own magic.
The distortion within his face is not damage being concealed. It is experience being integrated. Artist King does not erase The Chameleon, Beautiful Loser, Crown of Sorrow, or any of the selves who came before him. He gathers them, forgives them, and transforms their survival into creative authority.
This is not a portrait of perfection. It is a portrait of self-sovereignty—a neurodivergent artist reclaiming the sensitivity he once mistook for brokenness and recognizing it as part of his creative intelligence. He is an antenna for memory, emotion, color, and the unseen currents moving beneath ordinary life.
Artist King stands at the living center of The Becoming of Artist King, an evolving visual biography told through Everflow’s Archetypes. New chapters will continue to emerge as the artist turns shame into language, pain into meaning, and lived experience into a body of work that others can enter without having to endure the same fire.
The crown does not signify power over others. It represents dominion over his inner world—the moment the artist stops abandoning himself and begins creating from the throne of his authentic power.
“I suffered so I could tell the story—so you would not have to live it.”
— Everflow
Stoned Cold
2012 | 24 × 30 inches
Acrylic, oil-based enamel and aerosol on canvas
Liquid Sound Design
Elephant Soul carried the calling. Stoned Cold carried the cost.
Stoned Cold emerged after Everflow returned to Ohio from Los Angeles, where he had pursued music and lived at a pace that required him to become whoever survival demanded.
He returned without the victory he had imagined, leaving an addictive lifestyle cold turkey and entering a radically different reality: long factory shifts beneath the gray weight of an Ohio winter.
But the deepest cold was internal.
Everflow had built his sense of worth around what he believed he was supposed to achieve. Returning without it felt like returning as less than the man he was meant to become. Painting became the one place where he could still breathe.
One cold night, he stood before this canvas and surrendered. Working with leftover colors collected from hardware stores, he allowed water, gravity, acrylic, oil-based enamel and aerosol to move freely. He stopped controlling the current and followed it until a wounded figure emerged.
When Everflow saw the finished face, he cried.
The figure was not merely stoned. He had been stoned by life—struck by judgment, consequence, rejection and the collapse of an identity he could no longer carry. Yet beneath every mark remained something that refused to disappear.
The painting holds one of Everflow’s deepest realizations:
“I became every man and woman I had ever judged.”
That realization began transforming judgment into compassion. Everflow could now recognize fragments of himself in the powerful and the forgotten, the celebrated and the condemned, the broken and the becoming.
In Liquid Sound Design, water becomes both medium and teacher. Everflow does not force it into obedience; he follows its intelligence and allows the current to reveal what has been waiting beneath the surface.
Stoned Cold captures the moment shame began becoming compassion—the portrait of a man who returned without the dream he expected, only to discover that surviving its collapse was the beginning of his true becoming.
“I have been marked by life, but I have not been erased.”
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Medium: Acrylic, aerosol, oil, enamel, and mixed media on raw, un-gessoed canvas, hand-stretched on a custom Tarim frame
The Origin
Elephant Soul was born in a crucible of transformation. In 2012, after years of pursuing a music career in Los Angeles—the City of Lost Angels—I found myself spiraling downward. For the first time in decades, I reached out to my father in Findlay, Ohio, a man I had been estranged from since childhood because of his harsh words and unresolved pain. Though our past was fractured, he welcomed me home, and in his old 1900s brick building I began the slow process of healing, detoxing, and rediscovering myself.
I transformed the wrecked upstairs loft—19-foot ceilings, exposed brick, vast open rooms—into a sanctuary for creation. There, on raw canvas stretched by my own hands, I painted my soul back together. Elephant Soul was one of the first breakthroughs, a self-portrait of my torso in symbolic form. In its lines, colors, and presence, I discovered the image of an elephant—an ancient archetype of courage, wisdom, and endurance.
The Spirit of the Work
The elephant here is not obvious, not literal—it emerges from chaos, drips, splatters, and veils of color, just as wisdom emerges from struggle. It is the soul made visible:
Copper & earth tones root the painting in primal strength, evoking the body’s resilience.Splashes of white represent purification, the clearing of old wounds and toxic cycles.
Hints of blue and turquoise pulse with higher frequency, symbols of communication, self-expression, and the truth of the throat chakra.
The layered use of acrylic, aerosol, oil, and enamel creates a multidimensional surface, where depth and movement shift with the light. Each medium carries its own frequency—acrylic for immediacy, aerosol for breath and atmosphere, oil for depth and soul, enamel for permanence and edge.
This piece is both autobiographical and universal. It is a reminder that through chaos, through reconciliation, through leaning into the shadow of our past, we are reborn into courage.
Why Collectors Value It
Owning Elephant Soul is more than acquiring a painting—it is stepping into a lineage of transformation. It represents:
A Bold Statement: At 5x5 feet, on raw, unprimed canvas, it commands space unapologetically. This is not a polite piece—it’s a declaration of survival, power, and rebirth.
Authenticity: Created in the raw loft space of my father’s craft store, it carries the aura of an artist rebuilding his life. No filters, no pretenses—just truth splashed across canvas.
Investment Value: As one of my earliest and most personal large-scale works, it stands as a cornerstone in my evolving artistic journey. Early pieces that carry this level of origin story and personal mythology are the ones collectors fight to hold on to. Its value—will only appreciate as my body of work expands and gains wider recognition.
A Conversation Piece: To live with this painting is to invite dialogue about resilience, family, reconciliation, and the archetypal elephant spirit. It is a reminder of wisdom carried through suffering, and the beauty that emerges when we transform pain into art.
✨ For the collector bold enough to acquire Elephant Soul, it is not just a painting—it is a living artifact of transformation. A mirror of their own journey of courage. A piece of my soul immortalized in acrylic, aerosol, oil, enamel, and raw canvas.
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