Daniel Yanez started as a graffiti artist and continues to use spray paint as his medium. He’s grown into sculpture and installations and has been a professional contemporary artist for almost 20 years now. The 37 year-old has created work for the Dallas Mavericks and Post Fruity Pebbles, and he has painted murals in Deep Ellum, downtown Dallas and Oak Cliff.
Yanez explained that he had been wanting to do something a bit deeper, something specifically for the local LGBTQ community, because he had a new inspiration: “Not too long ago, my daughter told me she was gay.”
When his daughter came out to him, Yanez said, he knew right away that he wanted to create something special for her. And then Caven called. He told them about his daughter and that he wanted the mural to be reflective of that story and special for her. But he also wanted to create something that everyone could appreciate and, maybe, relate to.
So Yanez had to balance portraying his daughter, showing his own perspective and representing the community to create a single image. “I wanted it to be open to anyone, so I thought long and hard over how I wanted to express the idea,” he said.
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