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Goddess in the Garden Artist and activist Mayumi Oda envisions a beautiful world Utne Reader, September/October Issue For a century now, the art world has debated whether or not beauty is an appropriate goal for contemporary work.

For Mayumi Oda, the answer is simple.

Oda Mayumi, born in Tokyo, now lives in Hawaii.

Oda Mayumi, born in Tokyo, now lives in Hawaii.

With her empowered imagery, she's connected many to the divine feminine.

I recently had the honor of collaborating with the esteemed Mayumi Oda-san and her team on a project that truly celebrates her life's work.

Yvonne Cheng, Pegge Hopper, and Mayumi Oda have been a significant influence on Hawaii's art scene for decades.

Take one look at her silkscreen prints of robust vegetables, graceful cherry blossoms, and fleshy goddesses with delicate pink nipples, and it's clear that beauty animates her artistic vision. Growing up in Tokyo during World War II forever marked Oda's view of the world.

"I was on the ground when Bs were bombing us," she says. Despite hardship during and after the war, Oda's mother always secured hard-to-find art materials and encouraged her children to draw. "My mother wanted to be an artist but could not because she was a traditional Japanese housewife," Oda says.

"So she entrusted her dream to me." After graduating in from Japan's National Academy of Art, where she m