Fish Overland in Rain Diptych (20/40)

A diptych depicting fish moving overland in rain — a visually surreal composition that inverts the normal relationship between aquatic and terrestrial realms, the fish liberated from their medium and moving through the rain-soaked earth as if the boundary between water and land were no longer absolute. Mayumi Oda's ecological imagination frequently inverts or dissolves the categorical boundaries that human thought imposes on the natural world: fish can fly, the sea can flow through a garden, the sacred can inhabit the domestic kitchen. In this diptych, the rain that falls creates a temporary world in which the fish's element comes to them — the land becomes temporarily aquatic, and the fish move through it as if returning to an ancestral condition.