Remember
Remember the sky that you were born under,
know each of the star's stories.
Remember the moon, know who she is.
Remember the sun's birth at dawn, that is the
strongest point of time. Remember sundown
and the giving away to night.
Remember your birth, how your mother struggled
to give you form and breath. You are evidence of
her life, and her mother's, and hers.
Remember your father. He is your life, also.
Remember the earth whose skin you are:
red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth
brown earth, we are earth.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their
tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them,
listen to them. They are alive poems.
Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the
origin of this universe.
Remember you are all people and all people
are you.
Remember you are this universe and this
universe is you.
Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you.
Remember language comes from this.
Remember the dance language is, that life is.
Remember.
Artist Bio
Deb Parks
Maryland based fine art photographer, Deb Parks has been honing her photographer skills since 2011. Creating art has been a part of her life ever since she was a child in North Carolina. There she first discovered her love of fantasy and surrealism, initially using paint and canvas as her medium. From 2003 until 2006, she owned Deb’s Designs, where she created beautiful hand painted murals in people’s homes and offices. There, she also found her love to teach. In her studio she would teach painting and drawing classes for young and old alike.
In 2011, she began taking photographs of her artwork and discovered the art form of photography. She quickly learned that she could create powerful, surreal, and beautiful pieces of art using the camera as her medium. In 2013 she graduated from The New York Institute of Photography, and since then she has taken multiple classes to enhance her skills in composite, lighting, as well as posing and expression.
Receiving inspiration from the world around her as well as her vivid imagination, Deb creates surreal images with a touch of reality. Her photographs tell stories about life, happiness, sadness, loss, as well as battles we have within ourselves. Her hope is to draw the viewers into her images, therefore evoking some type of emotion.
Deb has received several Bronze awards for some of her portraiture and had one of her client’s portraits published in a magazine about women in business. She continues to run her portraiture business, Deb’s Art Designs, as well as create her Fine Art Images.
Fine Art as Communication
I am surrounded both by natural beauty and interesting people. I use my camera to document the world and then print images with a focus on the magic I find in daily life. My pictures tell my stories.
Sharing Stories
Sharing my work and my stories is my greatest joy.
