Nina Frances Burke

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Visual Artist
Location Charlottesville, VA
Introduction When I was a little girl I wanted to marry either Willie Wonka or Andy Gibb. One is make believe and one is dead. Hmmmm....
Interests Walking mindfully in the woods, playing ball with my dog, kayaking, laying in the sun with SPF 600, hand-drumming very badly, meditation, Thich Nhat Hanh, buddhism
Favorite Movies The Piano, The Poseidon Adventure (its true, love those 70's disaster movies), The Hangover, Frida, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the original), What Dreams May Come
Favorite Music The Shins, Radiohead, Beethoven, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, old Indigo Girls, Rusted Root, Hot Ugandan Percussionist Shinobe, Carl Orff, A little funky bluegrass hippy style, and OK, Funkytown. I don't know about you.
Favorite Books The Cloud Atlas, Annie Dillard, Rachel Carson, Pema Chodron, Thich Nhat Hahn, Dalai Lama, Anne McCaffrey's old dragon books I read as a kid, Women who Run with the Wolves, Margaret Bourke-White's autobiography, Robert Rauschenberg's Off the Wall autobiography, Becoming Judy Chicago

You've successfully slain the dragon! How will you toast your marshmallows?

I wouldn't have slain the dragon, and I wouldn't eat the marshmallows either, because dragons are our friends, and marshmallows are not vegetarian.