Key value factors: For living or recently deceased artists, limited edition size and gallery representation drive value. Signed and numbered prints from smaller editions are most desirable.
A composition depicting movement toward light through a grove of ferns — one of Oda's most directly spiritual and ecologically grounded subjects. The fern (shida in Japanese) is among the most ancient of plants, appearing in the fossil record hundreds of millions of years before the flowering plants that dominate contemporary ecosystems. A grove of ferns thus carries the weight of deep geological time, and moving through it toward light becomes a movement through biological history toward something as ancient and enduring as the ferns themselves. Oda's Hawaiian context adds specificity: the Hawaiian islands' native forests of tree ferns are among the most dramatic and spiritually significant landscapes in the Pacific.
Wakasa Kugushiko
1920
Color woodblock print; oban
Woodblock print
1934
Color woodblock print; oban
n.d.
Woodblock print; ishizuri-e, section of harimaze sheet
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Towards The Light, Fern Grove (34/50) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Towards The Light, Fern Grove (34/50) depicts landscapes, religious, and trees.
