Untitled

Another untitled entry in Wozniak's mokuhanga research, this print engages with the registration logic specific to Japanese woodblock printing. The kentō system — small carved guides that align successive impressions — allows multiple blocks to be printed in close registration without mechanical apparatus, and the slight inevitable drift across an edition becomes part of the work rather than a fault to be corrected. Wozniak's interest in the transposition of gesture extends to this stage of the process: the way a single carved mark, printed twice in slightly different positions or colours, produces a doubling that is neither error nor effect but a record of the printing event itself. The water-based pigments characteristic of mokuhanga, applied with brush rather than roller, allow for the variation of ink load across a single impression, so that no two prints in an edition are mechanically identical. Within his Olsztyn studio practice, these untitled prints sit alongside lithographic work as parallel investigations into the conditions under which a gesture can be reproduced.