ART
BY MAXIMILLIEN DE LAFAYETTE

Hilda Hiary: Innovative
Visionary with intelligent compositional expressions.
Beads
of thoughts and complex micro forms in quasi organic and mechanical structure,
sometimes autonomous and some other time evolving with precision. Hiary’s
style might not reflect lyrical warmth or breeze of romanticism but, most
certainly, it makes you think. Would this lead us to assume that Hiary’s style
is alert and mature, perhaps intellectual-organic? Possibly. This is a complex
and perplex artistic expression, active and constantly evolving, for you
cannot define a beginning nor a finish line while you are racing with her
colors and mini structural cosmos. I would have never guessed that this art is
the product of a female artist who comes from an exotic land such as Jordan.
And this puzzles me. For, I have to quest for new lexicology and epistemology
to describe the concept and images of her most unusual compositional
creativity.
To understand Hiary’s art, you must
assimilate her strategy. But does art has strategy? Is art a puzzle, an
enigma, a “scrabble”? Or is it a personal expression of inner feelings? Hiary
claims that her art is a personal and intimate expression. So we have to take
her word for granted.What attracted my attention was the liberty Hiary
takes in structuring and disposing of her organic geometry. For instance, upon
looking at the painting below, one aspect of her artistic composition strikes
you. It is the fragile and elegant division she created between two parts of
her canvas. And you don’t expect this in a Hiary’s painting. It comes like a
refreshing surprise.
Hiary
did it with intelligence, innocent elegance and artistic autonomy. Usually,
This constructional division does not dominate nor illustrate her genre, for
rarely we encounter such repartition in her other works. Was it intentional or
just a free artistic act similar to Andre Gide “L’Acte Gratuit”? It makes you
wonder. And when you begin to wonder, you began to think. And you begin to
think before an artwork, your interest in learning more about the artist
techniques intensifies. And that is good, for it stimulates your mind and
awakes you eyes on new esthetical interpretation and multi-dimensional
artistic sphere. And the art of Hiary does this! In
her real life, Hilda Hiary seems to be a sophisticated and elegant lady. I
wish if this elegance had visited her canvases. However, the lack of refined
strokes does not diminish the intensity and the finesse of her work. For, it
we do carefully sail into the lines, the curves, the circles and escapades of
her strokes, we will sense delicate feelings and a hidden elegant emotion.
Hiary took the liberty to reveal her inner feeling in organic and mechanical
forms. So it be. It is her world and let’s invade it with courage and open
mind. Despite the apparent techno-avant garde aspect of her work,
her canvases reveal comforting intimacy, delicate movement and sweetly tender
imagery. Those miniscule, fragile and perplex dots, circles, cylinders, tubes
and geo-cosmic entities dispersed on the landscape of her infinite art appear
before my eyes like a tender dispersion of secretive journeys and visits to
universes with one million rainbows, horizons and firmaments. Hiary art is
captivating and meaningful for it attracts the interest and attention of the
adult and simultaneously flirt with the colorful innocence of the “child” in
us. It is an honest art.