March 2015. Hotel room, Doha, Qatar. My first visit to these parts to discover Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and its already famous collection. I notice a phenomenon that will be repeated in all the hotel rooms I stay in in the Gulf. The huge, hermetically sealed windows on the 30th or 40th floor make you feel as if you are in an aerial jar where the outside landscape loses all reality. You’re almost afraid that the room will be turned upside down like a snow globe and the snow will start to fall. A dream of whiteness in the land of blazing oil.