1001 Arabian Nights by Nasha Maryam Explore Mondoir Studio Medium: Original Mini acrylic canvas paintings on wooden board Dimensions: 30 x 30 cm Year: 2023 Price: $1050.00 USD Status: available 1001 Arabian Nights The heart of a traveler.. where does it go? What does it want? What shapes a traveler? Is it the destination and the future? Or is it the journey over night and day? The eclipses of hope and despair in the hot days and the cold nights? Or the soft companionship of strangers that embark at different times of your journey and bid bye’s at the most comfortable moments? Or the contemplation and the prayers that come abruptly and in desperation? Or the simple beauty of the bountiful sunsets and sunrises over the horizon of the desert?… What is the destiny of the one that embarks on a journey? It is not only magical and transforming to an alchemist, but to the ordinary man and woman who becomes extraordinary and carries their story with the dunes and sand. Embark and set foot on this journey to discover the beauty and resistance within you. Where do the deserts take us!? Artist: Nasha Maryam Why collect this work?Twelve small desert scenes are separated by a dark grid, turning travel into a sequence of partial views rather than one continuous panorama. Repeated horizons, suns and caravans give the work a storybook rhythm, while abrupt shifts between daylight and night resist a single chronology. Maryam describes desert landscapes as connected to memories of living in Saudi Arabia and the UAE. That stated personal frame clarifies the recurring dunes and palms here, though the scenes remain generalized rather than mapped to named places.Silhouetted travellers recur across several panels, but architecture, vegetation and empty terrain often dominate. Their changing scale makes human passage seem intermittent within a larger, persistent environment.The documented acrylic mini canvases permit compressed changes of palette and motif. Mounted together on a wooden board, their separate edges function like pauses between episodes, while linear marks visually connect sand, clouds and woven patterns.Encountering the complete grid makes comparison central: caravan against solitude, cultivated detail against open ground, and warm daylight against dense blue night. Its significance lies in how serial landscape converts an expansive journey into twelve bounded recollections. About the ArtistNasha Maryam Nasha Maryam is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Sharjah, AE. Nationality: Indian My signature art styles are seascapes and desertscape paintings. It is because I find in the desert the moments to pause, slow down and introspect.
