IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This 2024 mokuhanga print was Wozniak's submission to the International Mokuhanga Conference, held that year in connection with Echizen, the Fukui prefecture region long associated with the production of high-quality [washi](/glossary/washi) for printmaking. IMC submissions are typically printed on Echizen washi specifically supplied for the conference exchange, so the paper itself carries a documentary connection to one of the historical centres of Japanese papermaking. The work belongs to Wozniak's continuing research into the transposition of gesture in woodcut and into Nagashizuki papermaking, both of which were the focus of his 2018 visiting appointment at the Tokyo University of the Arts. As a contribution to an international exchange, the print sits within a practice that crosses between his teaching position at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn — where he heads a planographic studio working in stone and aluminium lithography — and the global community of contemporary mokuhanga practitioners. The dated, conference-affiliated work provides a fixed reference point within a body of otherwise untitled prints.