Roots and Rhythm: The Comorian Pulse in My Work

When I paint, I don’t just work with colors — I work with origins.
My connection to the Comoros runs deeper than geography. It’s a rhythm, a pulse that moves through everything I create. I carry it like a hidden metronome, guiding each stroke, each silence, each balance of form and emptiness.

The Comoros are not only where part of my family story begins — they’re also where I learned to look at light differently. The reflection of the sun on the sea, the dust that dances in the air, the warmth of the tones — all of that stays with me. It’s not something I try to reproduce; it simply comes through.

That’s what gives my work its tension between stillness and movement. The gestures I use — sometimes fluid, sometimes abrupt — come from that same place where memory and instinct meet. The abstract forms that appear are echoes of that rhythm, transformed by years of graffiti, by the streets of Paris, and now by the open horizons of Dubai.

My art is a dialogue between worlds — between islands and cities, between silence and sound. The Comorian pulse reminds me that identity isn’t static; it moves, it breathes, it evolves. Just like a brushstroke that never really ends, it continues its journey across each new canvas.

Hakim Idriss
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