Star of Silence by Afsaneh Moslehi
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Medium: Ink on canvas
Dimensions: 165 x 165 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $5500.00 USD
Status: available
This work draws from the tradition of Islamic geometric design, where the star serves as a structured and enduring form, and calligraphy carries human expression within it. Together, they reflect a cultural language rooted in balance, repetition, and meaning. Within this structure, gold illumination unfolds in subtle floral forms, introducing a living presence that represents light and growth. These details are not immediately visible—they emerge and recede as light and viewing angles shift, inviting a deeper and more active engagement. The piece explores the relationship between tradition and life, where inherited forms are not static, but continuously renewed through human experience and connection to nature.
Why collect this work?
A radial framework holds dense, script-like marks in separate compartments, making silence appear not as emptiness but as expression disciplined by structure.
- Moslehi describes her practice as integrating calligraphy with geometric frameworks. Here, that intention is legible in the way fluid marks press against straight borders without resolving into readily readable text.
- The photograph shows an irregular many-pointed star built from outlined wedges around a congested centre. Broad pale channels interrupt the black tracery, so the eye alternates between centrifugal expansion and return to the core.
- Catalogued as ink on canvas, at 165 by 165 cm, the work uses fine linear repetition to generate mass across a large square field. Pale and golden-looking passages vary the density, though their exact colour and surface cannot be confirmed from the photograph.
- Made in 2025, the painting provides a focused encounter with how calligraphic movement can become architectural: language is treated less as a message to decode than as material contained, divided, and redistributed by geometry.
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.
