Ancient Sea II, Nautilus (12/13)
by Mayumi Oda
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Source:
- robynbuntin
Description
From Oda's Ancient Sea series, this second composition pairs her goddess figure with the nautilus — the ancient marine cephalopod whose spiral shell, unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, has made it a symbol of geological time, mathematical perfection (the golden spiral), and the deep origins of life in the ocean. The nautilus as a companion to Oda's goddess invokes the cosmic scale of her feminist spirituality: this is not simply a woman with a seashell but a divinity whose sphere of care encompasses the full depth of evolutionary time, the living creatures of the ancient sea as much as those of the present moment. The tiny edition size (12/13) indicates a very limited print.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Ancient Sea II, Nautilus (12/13) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Ancient Sea II, Nautilus (12/13) depicts seascapes.