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emburke
Hometown: San Bernardino, CA.
Role: Art Director, Clown, Composer, Director, Lyricist, Mixer, Playwright, Producer, Producer, Set Designer, Songwriter, Sound Technician, Street Performer, Hat Fitter & Haberdasher, Chef de Cuisine
Specialization: Acousmatic/Tape, Afro-beat, Americana, digital keyboard, Experimental, Folk, Funk, Fusion, Gospel, Indie, Instrumental, International, Jazz, Mashup, Opera, Showtunes, Ska, Soul, synthesizer, Cultural Arts, New Village Drinking & Wedding Music
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AngelaLao -
Happy New year 2009 and best wishes for you!! ^o^ Angela Lao
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emburke -
Hi!
That would be fun - chatting sometime. Write me back sometime & tell me more. Looking forward to getting to know you.
~Elliott
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emburke's Featured Art
Remembering Aafia
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I have a matching pen and holder which I received as a gift years ago. Crudely carved of wood and coated in something resembling soft rubbery tar, it is ornamented with a pattern of brightly colored beads and small bits of mirrored glass. If you look into it you can see a mosaic portrait of yourself reflected back — one which is by design distorted and shattered into sparkling fragments. This cup and pen have taken on varying shades of symbolic meaning for me since they were given to me nearly a decade ago. Common objects have a way of becoming historically larger than life and we often miss the connection they can hold for us. Our homes are filled with such items: knick knacks, baby spoons, photographs, rocks and leaves, books and drawings. In a similar fashion we can see ourselves reflected back through the value we place on so many things which make up our lives.
I met Aafia while I was working as a sales clerk at the M.I.T. student center. She was finishing her graduate studies at M.I.T. and would often sit with others at a table in the common area offering Qurans and tracts on Islam to whoever showed an interest. While I was on my lunch break I would go out and talk with her about her faith. She was a congenial young woman who always smiled and shared freely her thoughts about theology and science, particularly creation and genetics, two subjects which to her were inextricably woven together. Not having found many non-Christians who believed in God, or the Creation, I was interested in hearing what she had to say about Islam and its perceptions of the matter. When you talk to individual believers you often don’t receive dogma or theology as much as you do a personal witness to matters of faith and hope which have been born and nurtured through experience. She could have given me a small tract or a copy of the Quran (which she did) – yet she also gave me her time and thoughts, something far more valuable and intangible than that which might be measured against historical canons and doctrines. We crossed paths frequently and she would often stop in to give me something she wrote, invite me to gatherings of Islamic friends or just to see how I was. I still have all of her material on Islam, including essays on theology and creation as well as a one act play exploring the views of an atheist and a theist about genetics.
Aafia came in one day, dressed in the traditional clothing of her country Pakistan, to tell me that she was returning home for s...More >>
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