Untitled

This untitled mokuhanga print extends Wozniak's exploration of what he describes as the drawing trail — the persistence of the drawn gesture as it migrates into other media. In woodblock printing, that migration involves at least three transcriptions: the original drawing, the carving of the block, and the pressure of the [baren](/glossary/baren) that lifts pigment from block to [washi](/glossary/washi). Each step risks abrading the gesture, and Wozniak's research engages directly with what is preserved and what is lost in this passage. The print likely emphasises the materiality of the carved block — its grain, its tool marks, the irregularity of hand-carved line — over any pictorial illusion. As an educator who heads the printmaking studio at the University of Warmia and Mazury, Wozniak situates this work within a pedagogical as well as artistic frame: the untitled prints function partly as demonstrations of mokuhanga's distinctive logic for students more accustomed to Western relief and lithographic traditions.