“Art is a quiet revering of The Hidden… through the intimacy of creativity, we trace the unknown yet the nearest, wholeheartedly, without any condition nor any usual man-made boundary, we celebrate The Most Sublime who left imprints of Herself/Himself through our breath. Art reveals itself to adorn the journey of the spiritually aware, the humble [...]
“And We have created above you seven paths, and We are never unmindful of creation”. ~23:17 Qur’an
“And wherever you turn there is the Presence of Hu, for Hu is all pervading, All Knowing.” 2:115 ~Qura’n
“The whole earth is a place of worship” ~prophet Muhammad (saw).
Description: I worked on the painting “Atoms’ KaBa” by intervals for [...]
Description: I painted “Kemet Incandescence”
for the album cover of “Ancestral Devotion”, the new CD by Jazz musician Lonnie Plaxico. The piece was inspired from Africa’s ancient art that captures the spirituality of African culture, its reverence for the feminine principle and the sacredness of music. In experimenting with this different yet ancient genre [...]
(c) 2008 Aida Toure
Illumination at the Door (24″ x 30″ oil on canvas)
“…And Hu is with you wheresoever ye may be…”
~ 57:4 Quran
Description: the visual landscape of this painting came from this poem I composed about the culture of egolessness, love and contemplation which magnifies the quality of our life, of our overall [...]
“And of everything We have created pairs”
~ 51:49 Quran
Description: “On the Edge of Union” came out of a poem of the same title. This painting evokes the intertwining of opposite poles, which sustained by Love, leads to blissful flowing with The Divine. On the painting, the opposite poles are expressed through the feminine and masculine [...]
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