by Mayumi Oda
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A diptych composition by Mayumi Oda in which the ocean itself chants — the sea understood as a singing, speaking entity whose voice carries spiritual teaching across the distance between its world and ours. The diptych format allows the chant's sound to extend across two panels, the visual rhythm of the two-part composition analogous to the rhythm of waves in alternation, breathing in and out, advancing and retreating. Oda's ocean compositions situate the sea as the primary spiritual landscape of her Pacific period: the source of life, the medium of connection between islands, and the place where the boundaries between self and world dissolve in the experience of total immersion.
1940
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
Boshu Taikai
1925
Color woodblock print; oban
September 1931
Color woodblock print; oban
Chant of the Ocean Diptych was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Chant of the Ocean Diptych depicts seascapes.
