The Day All Whales Shall Vanish Diptych (AP)

This artist's proof woodblock diptych represents Oda's engagement with oceanic ecology as subject matter for feminist spiritual art. Printed outside the numbered edition for the artist's own use, the AP impression carries the same technical character as any edition print — hand-carved blocks, water-based pigments, washi support — but exists in a smaller and less formally distributed group. The title frames the image within an elegiac mode: not the whale's present reality but the projected day of its absence, making the depicted animal a figure for irreversible loss. Oda's composition across two panels would distribute the ocean's expanse and the whale's body across the join, the continuity of the image depending on precise registration. Her color palette for marine subjects typically employs deep, saturated blues alongside the warm tonality of her goddess figures.