After a peaceful childhood, nurtured by loving parents, she pursued high school in France where the rigid structures and compulsions of formal education began to stir in her the urgency to embrace her innermost inclinations which revolved around some intense yet still undefined Arts. In 1995, she moved to New York to study music and on that creative journey, she embraced the practice of her native religion Islam; the sublimity of its inner motions inspired her to compose poetic works of a spiritual nature which reflect the state of Zikr, remembrance of The Beloved. In 2000, she released her first collection of Sufi poetry Unmanifest Poems which was followed in 2001 by The Sublime Sphere. In 2003 was released Nocturnal Light. In 2005, during the read of one of her poems, she was overcome with inner images of immense beauty. Thus she suddenly began to paint the spiritual themes in her poetry. She called her artwork "Visual Sufi Poetry". Aïda Touré has since exhibited her art work in the US and Gabon. She is the recipient of proclamation letters from the City Council of New Orleans and was honored by Payson Center, Tulane University for excellence in artistic endeavor. She has been featured in a textbook published the US and Canada and in magazines in Gabon. Her exuberant paintings are in private collections in Gabon, Mali, France and the US. |
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