She came, she saw, she transcribed every image and feeling in painstaking detail and then she won a cheap plastic 35MM camera from a Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes. What ensued was a marriage of enormous proportions. Her goal is to be. Forever. Existence is timeless when thumbprints, footprints, stories, written words, and photographic evidence is bequeathed to the Earth. Her every intention is to leave proof  that she was here.

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Sudan of Parting by Nubia Kai Salaam.

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Welcome To My Portfolio

These are the FACTS....

Name: Amber El
Location: Atlanta, GA


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EL, On The Choosing Of My Name...

"EL" is a common word/name, depending upon which culture you are studying, it is actually profoundly ordinary. In Arabic “El” is a name that precedes a surname indicating your lineage; it can also mean "the" as it does in Spanish. It is in that simplicity that I find my meaning. The extraordinary in the ordinary. For me, to take El as my name aids me in the process of self-definition. Semantics are an extremely important part of the process. I am able to add and subtract adjectives as I see fit; allot room for growth and evolution. So that I become/am my name.
                                                                
    Amber EL: Photographer. Poet. Writer. Music fan. Student of Life.

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"IS"
flying saucers swoop down 
attempting to take my wings
say 
no earthly beings have ever seen 
the heights to which I soar
but,
I am a resident of the universe.
galactic travel a daily occurrence
say I exist inside of black holes and time warps
that I am
more.
my soul touched down here
before body was attached to spirit
I, extraterrestrial
my supernatural self bound by earthly flesh
my souls' quest simply to fly again.