01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART - CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes - 34

Nyuka Anaïs Laurent

Well of Souls, c. 2008

Mixed Media

Private collection

The Well of Souls is a partly natural, partly man-made cave located inside the Foundation Stone under the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem. The name "Well of Souls" derives from a medieval Islamic legend that at this place the spirits of the dead can be heard awaiting Judgment Day. 

The site has never been subject to an archeological investigation and political and diplomatic sensitivities currently preclude this. More on The Well of Souls

Nyuka Anaïs Laurent: An artist practically from birth, first as a poet, then as a visual artist, the combination has become her trademark in Ekphrasis. High, abstract creations with intense colored textures are a priority; basically a hands-on, mixed media technique like finger-painting and mud splattering! Her preferred base is India ink; mixed media and collage layers come after. Each art piece is accompanied by a poem, giving her work greater depth of understanding. More on Nyuka Anaïs Laurent

Nyuka Anaïs Laurent 

Well of Souls

Into the light we soar,

Loosed from our earthly bonds.

Angels we thought did not exist

Come smiling to meet us.

What is it they want from us?

We have no more gold;

Our real estate passed to kin;

Our jewels, precious but useless,

adorn the napes of younger

women than we, my friend.

I have nothing of value left to give.

Even my humming creativity

has fled me, lacking eyes to see.

Neither beauty nor squalor

can touch me now.

I can no longer help another,

nor unwittingly give pain.

I no longer seek to be loved

nor to love in turn.

Without emotions, I simply am no more.

What is it you wish from me?

The most precious of all belongings,

only lent to you, your soul,

so it may be born again.

Nyuka Anaïs Laurent: "From 2005-2017 I work in my gallery.  I work in visual art and a collaborative poem each time. My base colors are usually done in India ink followed by mixed media and collage. Sizes vary from 36x51cm to 2.5mx1.5m. My work is never drawn before beginning. The canvas or watercolour paper is simply a place to which I transfer the subconscious or present themes of politics, ecology or other motivating objectives, to allow them to surface. I feel I am more a conduit than anything else.  I use whatever is handy at the time, from the trash on the road to pressed leaves, etc.  I like to recycle found objects and have no "style" so do not usually do series with a same content but rather on a theme. I am considered an Outsider."

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