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.
At the harbor entrance, an inspector weighed every thought before letting it cross the sea. The violinist’s first thought came in at seven kilos; her second weighed nothing at all. The weightless one settled between the rhinoceros’s horns, and the three of them glided on past the boats. The inspector kept the empty scale and spent the rest of his life trying to weigh his own astonishment.
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
- The Elephant’s Angel — $4,000
- A Shoreless Breath — $4,000
- The Making of the Sun — $4,000
