Le Feminin Noir © 2007 Aida Toure

(18″ x 8″ acrylic on canvas)

Description: This piece was created from the poem Le Feminin Noir in celebration of the Divine Feminine in its Essence and all its manifest octaves.
Year of Creation: 2006

~ Le Feminin Noir ~

… Empreintes lumineuses,
Le Feminin Noir, principe pieux

Immanifeste comme le Elle de Dieu,
Nous sommes le Son sommeillant

En le regard de l’enfant.
Amour, subtilite et beaute

Toutes ivres en la Presence,
Les femmes couvent l’Essence

Comme une prosternation
Elles dissimulent la Proximite.

Qui se cherche se trouvera
En le Elle du Lui, Sa Majeste.

2007 copyrights Aida Toure

Fragrance of Light: Roland et les Anges © 2007 Aida Toure

(18″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas panel)
Description: This painting evolved from and with this poem. I created this piece from a soft, captivating atmosphere of colors and scents … It deeply moved me.
Year of Creation: 2006

~ Fragrance of Light: Roland et Les Anges ~

I wander inward
to be with you,

and to smell
the fragrance

of your light,
it soothes me

and reveals
the Gentle Guide,

the concealed One.
I move to the breeze

of your sound
to save my heart

from the grief
of separation.

You make my ego
supple and it bows to

The Divine! Urged by
love, it vanishes.

That’s how deep
you move me out of

my self to know the
ambrosia of not-beingness.

2007 copyrights Aida Toure

Shamssya a la Harpe © 2007 Aida Toure

(14″ x 18″ acrylic on canvas panel)
Description: This piece is in homage to the feminine, regenerating properties of the Sun. The sacred Harp concept here accompanies the healing function of the Sun. The painting’s movements relate to the effect of Harp’s sounds upon noble souls who are systemically forced into exclusion… which eventually leads to Revolution.
Year of Creation: 2006

Dervisha © 2008 Aida Toure

(18″ x 24″ acrylic on canvas panel)
Description: Becoming Sky the poem inspired this painting whose creation brought me the utmost joy: it’s about the swirling inner Sky that unfolds within when we’re not afraid to embrace our true nature: egolessness.
Year of Creation: 2006

~ On Becoming Sky: Dervisha ~

I met your pure eyes
and I became myself,
your sight behind mine
looking at lights’ dance.

With such remote music
lingering on that close,
the human heart softens.

Look at my new weakness,
it’s crawling by your feet!

Being is that vast union,
that grace, that quietness.

Some secret Conversation
curls around us like locks
around Prophets’ earlobes.

Bless me, make speech go!
How many more will join

this love-community
of generous ears inside?
Let us beg them my love:

Be true beingness.
realize your exuberance,
embrace the Essence and
watch all generous hearts
become your companions.
Remember in one, many!
Struggle to be vulnerable,
touch the grace of femininity,
drown in the empty,
swim that deeply,
know Surrender;
fight to be that weak
so you can sense
what true strength is.

Then we fall back within,
inertia buoyantly begins
for the Sky leaps in …
Lo, we all are feminine!

2007 copyrights Aida Toure

(from Nocturnal Light)

Scented Tambourine © 2006 Aida Toure

(16″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas panel)
Description: ” Scented Tambourine” was a short poem about a spiritual station where the lover is completely submerged with Sound, he prostrates to The Beloved as he experiences this ecstatic Sound which is color, command vibration and movement.
Year of Creation: 2005

~ Scented Tambourine ~

I pretend to have understanding
but everything you do is

such a mystery to me,
I get lost between spaces

that whisper “just be quiet
and listen to this

Scented Tambourine,
one day it will all make sense …”

2007 copyrights Aida Toure

Deep Waters © 2007 Aida Toure

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(private collection ) (16″ x 20″ acrylic on canvas panel)
Description: The creation of “Deep Waters” was triggered by my sister, she suggested the title and the painting evolved from there; it seemed to come in many languages, it spoke a whole lot so I painted it with a sense of urgency! Here, water symbolises the soul’s luxurious universes, their interactions and movements in praise of The Beloved. The atmospheres of the painting find their source in verses of the Holy Qur’an which teaches scientific facts about water as well as the ocean and its invisible separations and such similar signs. “He has let free the two seas meeting together. There is a barrier between them. They do not transgress.” (~Quran, 55:19-20)
“Deep Waters” the poem may be read here. Year of Creation: 2005

~ Deep Waters ~

Sometimes my paint brushes
play hide and seek as if stars,
they vanish and reappear!

“It can’t get better than this”
I smile at the playful moves
because I often get lost too!

A revolving canvas, beads on
the floor, senses crazed, tides
animate our inner undulating seas.

Sometimes I no longer know
where is center, left nor right,
what is black or white

no more notion of peace or war,
just us learning how to swim
the deep waters of Longing.

copyrights 2006 Aida Toure

Mapanes de Perles (c) 2005 Aida Toure

(14″ x 18″ acrylic on canvas panel)
(private collection)
Description: “Satellite” view of the Mapanes. Mapanes is a Gabonese expression that could be translated as “the Ghetto”. This painting evokes the uncelebrated dimension of the Mapanes, dwelling place to many noble souls… (read on)
Year of Creation: 2005

Sacrificed Children's Lament © 2006 Aida Toure

Description: This piece protests ritual crimes and the selfishness and cruelty of adults who commit these heinous murders. This painting is dedicated to the memory of the children who have been mutilated and martyred.
Year of Creation: 2005.

~ Martyred Children Lament ~

Child, O child,
you are a gift
from the Divine!

They coveted your light
with their ambition
for obscure ascension.

Atrociously, they preyed
on you: there is no power
to gain in such sacrifice,

One who unjustly takes a life
kills all of humankind.
Child, O child,

now bodiless, weightless,
you circle around
the sublime Throne;

soul singing His praises
as Djibreel wipes
your tears away.

2007 copyrights Aida Toure