أجنحة وجذور

THE BOOK OF HOPE

Preface

The texts of these diary, has written over four decades, according to a curriculum and objective mode. The daily events affected on the texts so I had to add and make margins and annotations. That pressed on the movement of the structure and its shape to let the texts introduce themselves widely and freely to express their existence and its horizons which will not end between the artist and the world around him and aesthetic means of the expression, from the word to the color to the  architecture vocabulary of whole life .. Perhaps I feel that this achievement  presents a part of the literary and artistic stages which their  ideas have been broadcasted by other creators; poets, novelists, musicians, art and literature criticism and men of the Sociology, Science and Education, who supplied me a lot of their creativity treasures and helped me to pass a distance of this long travel.

I  often toured in their worlds in my imagination supporting by the influence of the letter and color to stand firmly for defense of human existence and freedom of creator which is offended, marginalized and  plundered by organized wars which destroy the beauty, history, science, culture and future of humanity and make us losing our way in exile just to convince us that we are a continuation of what had happened before to people in our moral and political history who lived in exile with the alienation, all of them were Iraqi figures, from the Prophet Abraham, who left his country" Ur "Iraq, to the poet Mutanabbi, Abn Zreik Al-Baghdadi, Abu Ali kali and Zriab, and who emigrated with and after him of Arabic Muslim poets, scientists and philosophers toward Andalusia, Morocco and Egypt and then waves of thousands of creative men and millions of exiled people who are now strangers scattered on the earth. The exile and alienation unite them.. (There is nothing but freedom can shake human spirit in relations of the social system. After the progress of human spirit created the nations, after all the people involved in some way at the same advantages, what can the human race do without a sense of freedom?!)

The oil paintings which I have done, the sketches I have made and the letters I have written in Arabic, Islamic, international, humanitarian alphabet are achieved with the obsession called “Hope”. Also this book in your hands, has been constructed by illusion of imagined hope which made me had strength and weakness, determination and will with their contradictions, allegation of pride, highness and arrogance against deception and defeatism. In a world topped by chaos, violence, wars, destruction, greed, deceit and egoism, a world in which (the principles of intellectual fairness) are hidden, there is also what called the soft beloved green we have invented to justify our fears from the unknown, and that is the hope, the only symbol that does not lose its shine in hearts of weak people and does not lose its eminent status before the world events that threaten us with extinction and menace to the life on our blue planet.. From here, you find us tenacious of edges of leaving hope cloud, so I have to write in a language that floods with a noble passion and astonishing fondness. For “ the love springs overflow on the threshing floors of wheat,  spadix of date palms, mountains peaks, valleys, deserts, marshes waters and the plains of Arab world”. 

At the first time I dreamt of my freedom, I noticed that my sorrow has ended, and its ashes turned to light so I was able to paint tableaus and write the postponed pages in the book of hope. I wrote memoirs, short stories, novels and thirty books about tracks of art history, literature and art criticism.

The only thing I deal with in this book is the story of freedom in art, culture and life... There are hopes in the life make us suffer for and work to achieve them until the end.