When Hadi makes a painting, as when he creates a sculpture or even a poem, he thinks as an abstract artist thinks. That is, his main subject is his chosen medium of expression. His paintings come out of calligraphy but he treats the letters in the painting as things, not as conveyors of meanings in the way the tradition of calligraphy treats them. Rather, he is working within the abstracted tradition of painting. Thus he does not look to the meanings of words or try to convey them as a calligrapher would. He is interested in the form of the letters and he creates a field of letters. The expression results from this field without reference to words as words. Even his poetry flies away from literal meanings, preferring the impact of sound and rhythm and the pictures the imagery creates. As he is working on public sculptures he does the same thing with his sculpture. He is seeking an inner balance between painting and calligraphy and poetry that satisfies his inner sense of things.