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A second composition from Oda's Victorian Invention series — this one featuring an aerial cycle, the fantastical pedal-powered flying machine that nineteenth-century inventors imagined before the internal combustion engine and the Wright brothers' achievement transformed the terms of flight. Oda's choice of Victorian technological fantasy as a vehicle for her goddess figures is both playful and pointed: the Victorians' earnest mechanical optimism, their belief that human ingenuity could master the physical world, is here commandeered by female figures who ride and fly these contraptions with the exuberant freedom that patriarchal Victorian society denied them in actuality. The goddess on her aerial cycle is the Victorian woman liberated.
Victorian Invention, An Aerial Cycle (26/50) was created by Mayumi Oda (小田真由美).
Victorian Invention, An Aerial Cycle (26/50) depicts figures and abstract.
