Star of Echoes by Afsaneh Moslehi
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 165 x 165 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $4500.00 USD
Status: available
This work draws from Islamic geometric design, where the star becomes a stable and timeless form, while calligraphy carries human expression within it. Together, they reflect a visual language built on balance, repetition, and meaning. Within this structure, bold layers of acrylic expand the calligraphy outward, creating a sense of movement and resonance. The forms seem to echo across the surface, as if a voice or memory is repeating and unfolding over time. The piece explores the relationship between structure and sound, where each mark holds a trace of what came before, suggesting that expression is never singular, but always continues, shifts, and returns.
Why collect this work?
A radial star fixes the composition around a dense calligraphic core, while repeated script-filled compartments carry its visual energy outward. The result balances strict symmetry with marks that resist immediate reading.
- Moslehi describes her practice as integrating calligraphy with geometric frameworks. Here, that stated aim is visible in the way script occupies and articulates the star rather than sitting apart as a caption.
- In the photograph, a blue polygonal field is divided into concentric points and petal-like sections against a pale square ground. Fine pale lines establish order, but the compressed, curling script makes each segment internally restless.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas, the painting uses broad opaque areas to separate figure from ground, while narrow linear marks support sharp internal divisions. Acrylic makes such contrasts possible, though the photograph cannot confirm surface texture or layering.
- At 165 by 165 cm, according to the catalogue, the work makes calligraphy encounterable simultaneously as language, pattern, and spatial structure. Its interest lies in sustaining that unresolved shift between reading and seeing.
About the Artist
Afsaneh Moslehi
Afsaneh Moslehi is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Muscat, OM.
Nationality: Iranian
My work explores the relationship between nature, geometry, and human expression.
