The Sea

'A lot of the landmarks of my experience lie amidst 'complete solitude' as well as 'the course of the invisible in painting.' Indiscernible to the eye, this space contains my innermost thoughts, my painting techniques and all that I want to achieve through and by painting. Briefly, I can say that what provokes my visual sensitivity is that which gives the sky its meaning; the distance where creatures exist and whatever may explain the concept of hovering, exaltation and rapprochement, along with the lightness of being which is a feature of unseen entities. (...) When I paint, I follow my dreams through my brushstrokes. As I paint, my hand also dreams as I do, it does so nervously and as it moves my dreams are cleared and refined. Painting does not dwell in my mind alone, painting is the act of my body. The imagination of that body creates a special distance, which I have identified as the space that leads up to the sky. (...) Painting is not a mask; it is the truth, and I have been exposed to its magical effects.'
(Himat M. Ali, Paris, October 2010)

'Himat's paintings are mirrors for poems over which poetry prevailed'.
(F. Yousif, Al Said. Himat: Story of the Unseen in Painting, Arab Institute for Research & Publishing, Amman-Beirut, 2010, p. 29).