Lot Essay
Along the upper edge of The Toast, Salman Toor gracefully weaves in fragments of a punjabi Sufi song by the 18th-century mystic-poet Baba Bulleh Shah, titled Tere Ishq Nachaya (Your love made me dance), that loosely translates to:
Your love made me dance
Your love made me hostile
I took a sip from a bowl of poison
The sun has finally set
Fragments from the same poem are featured in other paintings from the artist's 2015 series.
Your love made me dance
Your love made me hostile
I took a sip from a bowl of poison
The sun has finally set
Fragments from the same poem are featured in other paintings from the artist's 2015 series.