Dez’Mon Omega Fair
Dez’Mon Omega Fair is a teaching artist and a writer living in the Seattle Washington Area. Their visual and video poetry work, as well as immersive installation and performance work has been shown all over The U.S. and abroad: as far away as The Williamsburg Brooklyn Public Library in New York City and La Galleria in A Coruña, España to as near as, Langston Seattle, in the annual Seattle Black Film Festival, and Wa Na Wari. He-they are a member of The Film and Video Poetry Society, leading expressive art workshops at its bi annual symposium; sat on the board of Carnegie Picture Lab, a nonprofit providing art based programming for Walla Walla county, where he-they facilitated Art Scholars at Davis Elementary, a social emotional learning course using art to navigate one's inner life.
About Prayer III: Art loosely becomes Religion. As an artist saved by Art, I preach that Art is Medicine. I preach that Art isn't just for artists to practice, however an innate tool for which every human can clearly commune with the self: get right with the self. When writing and meditating on this text, this prayer, I recalled all the mediums I've used in Faith: Astrology, Baptist thought, Chi in Igbo cosmology, and reflections on the re-emergent history of The Black Madonna. When visualizing and producing this poetry film, I recall moving out west to the open California sun and sky and recall the saints there under. Saint Tupac's The Rose That Grew From Concrete was the first book of poetry I'd ever read. At this point in my young life, I had never experienced such a level of emotional disruption in my home for the death of someone unrelated to us; and from that mournful time on, I would grow to know deeply the importance of Art and Poetry and Purpose.