Hassan Omar Ahmad

Hassan Omar Ahmad (2023):

A poet once said: “One day I wanted to write a poem, so I went out to work on the beauty
of the surrounding nature to conjure a poetic image. I sat in one of the green meadows and
contemplated in order to imagine a picture in my mind and put it in my notebook, a picture
in the shape of letters that tells a lot of meanings.”
The poet also said: “I saw a painter in the beauty of my country, my home.”

I met the poet and he shared that there are a number of things in common between poetry
and drawings. The poet then asked me, “When did you start drawing?”

“I started drawing when I was young. I wanted to write poetry. My words helped me draw a
small hut and a tree, and it became a painting. Its atmosphere was poetic.”

The poet asked: “Why do you answer poetry with painting?”

“Because it moves the conscience, because it encapsulates verbal expressions and the art of
geometry. “

“When do you like to paint?”

“I like to paint alone with my thoughts, to process my suffering because there is no escape
from it. When I make art, I need a quiet place for contemplation, to be able to produce my
paintings. However, the cultural space occurs not only in the studio. Besides painting, I
draw, design clothes, or collaborate with the collectives I am a part of. The places where I
find myself with or between people feeds my practice and vice versa.”

Finally, the poet concluded: “the painter has ideas like thoughts. He has a ‘hand’ with which
he can reverse the image of what exists in his mind, the property, that is, the property,
which is the hand.”