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.
The woman noticed her body had grown long enough to become a giraffe, and turned down both the tailor and the doctor. She waded into the sea and asked the rhinoceros a single question through her saxophone. He took off his golden medallion and hung it around the neck of the horizon instead. High above, the balloons opened their dictionaries and found that the word “strange” had quietly gone missing.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 60 × 60 cm
More from The Nobles of the Inner Sea:
- The Nobles of the Inner Sea — $18,000
- The Sail of the Self — $14,000
- 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
- The Making of the Sun — $4,000
