This painting is part of The Nobles of the Inner Sea, Mahshid Moochani’s 2026 collection of thirteen oil-on-canvas paintings. Read the collection essay — Why the Sea in Mahshid Moochani’s New Collection Isn’t a Place — or visit Mahshid Moochani’s full artist profile.
Eleven times the captain changed the sails, and eleven times the ship turned back toward the elephant. “The wind is wrong,” he complained. The hippopotamus lowered her golden saxophone. “No, Captain — you tied the mast to your own shadow.” When he finally opened his hand, he found the knot had been sitting there all along.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 120 × 80 cm
More from The Nobles of the Inner Sea:
- The Nobles of the Inner Sea — $18,000
- The Rhythm of Being — $16,000
- A Civilization in the Depths of Silence — $16,000
- The Invisible Architecture of Nobility — $10,000
- A Polyphonic Unity — $10,000
- The Hidden Order of the Waves — $7,000
- The Silent Music of the Deep — $7,000
- Hidden Geometry — $7,000
- A Gliding Mind — $4,000
- The Elephant’s Angel — $4,000
- A Shoreless Breath — $4,000
- The Making of the Sun — $4,000
