by Mayumi Oda
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A spring composition by Mayumi Oda — the season's fragrance rendered through her characteristic palette of vivid, saturated color and the sinuous female form that anchors her compositions. Spring in Oda's seasonal works carries the same charge of renewal, fertility, and emergent energy that the season has accumulated across Japanese aesthetic tradition, but filtered through her feminist Buddhist vision: the goddess figure in spring is not simply beautiful but is the agent of the season's transformative power. The fragrance of spring — invisible, carried on warm air, the first sign of floral awakening — becomes a quality of the goddess herself, her physical presence inseparable from the sensory richness of the awakening world.
Spring Fragrance (8/45) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Spring Fragrance (8/45) depicts spring.
