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 midday, the woman noticed a tiny city hidden inside the colorful fish. Its streets formed a geometry that fit no map, and every one of them led to the silence beneath the rhinoceros’s golden horn. Until dark she searched the water for the city’s gate. It was only when she closed her eyes that its doors finally opened.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 2026
Dimensions: 90 × 70 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
- A Gliding Mind — $4,000
- The Elephant’s Angel — $4,000
- A Shoreless Breath — $4,000
- The Making of the Sun — $4,000
