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Ben Parks

Portrait of artist Ben Parks by Kansas City photographer Kirk Decker.  Ben stares intently into the camera, long hair framing his face.
Artist and Musician Ben Parks

Ben Parks – Kansas City based artist (@brancesoftree) and musician (@oftree).  To say that Ben does large scale portraits and figurative work doesn’t really do justice to his art.  You need more words like “amazing” and “soulful” which can also be applied to the music that he and Laurel (@fiddlemaiden) create.  The loop, almost butterfly, light in this portrait comes from a gridded beauty dish – something Ben found to be highly amusing.