Hunting for the sound
In the relation between circles
Grooves and ridges
On the surface of a disk.
Hunting for the circles
Grooves and ridges
On the surface
Of my fingers.
Hunting for the relation
Between the surface of my fingers
And the surface of the disk.
Does the sound get sharper
when the lines are brighter?
Shell it cough
if dust occupies it?
70x50cm
Acrylic on canvas
Hunting in the needle
That touches the round lines
ln the rotation of the disk
ln one direction
In the possibilities of emptiness forms
Between the needle point
And the turning lines’
Hunting
To reach the spherical emptiness
There
In the middle.
Circles turn with the sound
Breath
Go through ideas and trajectories
The time decomposes itself
Into spirals moving up and down
And I find myself there.
Every time I remember my face I see the
sun
This disk that moves
And nobody sings
For it.
70x50cm
Acrylic on canvas
Sometimes you through your darts
And they catch a map
it might not necessarily be your map
And by chance
or coincidence
you find it in your hand
you say: I found the map
There the map found me
And my mission now
is to dissect it
Sometimes
you throw your darts
And they get lost
Hunting others’ maps
They are the laziest:
They through their dreams at you
to realize it for them
they threw you their disappointments
to endure it for them
They are the laziest
And you are the naïve prey that
lost the reason of this one hunt
For the hunt
And sank
When they pull you up
Do not be
Please
Thankful.
So who said that the emptiness
in the middle
Is black?
And how do you know it is empty it self?
And if someone tells You
Nothing is in the emptiness
Would you believe?
Won’t you hunt in this “Nothing”
For a shape or a form?
To touch it?
To intersect with it?
To find yourself
In it?
From MAP OF THE SELF Poems and Drawings Hoda Hussein 2006
Hoda Hussein
Egyptian creative writer poetess and novelist, artist painter and translator.
Published many poetry books and novels in Arabic language.
Represented Egypt in poetry and novels festivals and encounters in several countries like Yemen, Spain, India, France, Cuba, and Chile
Made creative writing workshops for kids in many schools in Cairo Egypt.
Received rewards for poetry, novels and for translations in Chile, Macedonia and Egypt.
Was entitled as a universal ambassador for peace by the peace ambassadors circle that works under the UNESCO
Featured Painting: The Great Lady. 70x50cm. Acrylic on canvas.
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