Woman Calendar (1/10)

The first of Oda's Woman Calendar series — a very small edition (1/10) suggesting this was an early or experimental work in what became a sustained series. The Woman Calendar concept — organizing female experience around the temporal structures of the calendar year — is an intrinsically feminist project: it reclaims the measurement of time as a domain of feminine rather than purely masculine experience, connecting the cycle of months and seasons to the rhythms of women's bodies and lives. The first composition in such a series establishes the visual vocabulary that subsequent works develop — Oda's characteristic figure types, color palette, and compositional strategies here first applied to the calendar framework.