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.
Every Tuesday, the ocean misplaced one second. No clock ever noticed, but the red fish always reappeared on the far side of its own shadow. A woman traveling on a wooden wheel gathered the missing seconds inside her golden trumpet, until it could not hold one more — and released them all at once. In that instant, the rhinoceros took a single step that lasted a lifetime.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 90 × 150 cm
More from The Nobles of the Inner Sea:
- The Nobles of the Inner Sea — $18,000
- The Sail of the Self — $14,000
- 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
