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This untitled woodblock print belongs to Wozniak's investigation into the transposition of gesture from drawing into the carved matrix, a research thread central to his studio practice at the University of Warmia and Mazury. Without a representational subject indicated by the title, the work likely operates in a non-objective register, where the trace of the carving tool—rather than depicted form—becomes the primary content. Mokuhanga's water-based pigments and absorbent [washi](/glossary/washi) support allow for layered transparencies and the soft edge characteristic of [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation, qualities that distinguish hand-printed Japanese woodblock from oil-based Western relief. Working in the contemporary mokuhanga idiom that gained international currency after the medium's late-twentieth-century revival, Wozniak adapts the technique to a Polish printmaking context where lithography and intaglio have historically dominated. The print reflects his 2018 research appointment at the Tokyo University of the Arts, during which he studied [baren](/glossary/baren)-printed mokuhanga alongside Nagashizuki papermaking, and his subsequent practice of integrating these methods into Central European art-academic discourse.