Untitled work by Aleksander Wozniak

Part of a sustained body of untitled works produced after Wozniak's 2018 study period in Tokyo, this woodblock print foregrounds the relationship between block, pigment, and handmade paper that defines mokuhanga as a material practice. The artist's parallel research into Nagashizuki—the Japanese sheet-forming method in which long fibers are suspended in neri to produce flexible, dimensionally stable washi—often informs the choice of support in his prints, with surface texture and absorbency contributing as actively to the image as the carved block itself. Water-based pigment applied with brush and printed with a baren produces the matte finish and grain-revealing tonal layering associated with the medium, distinct from the saturated ink film of oil-based relief. As an educator who heads a planographic studio specializing in stone and aluminium lithography, Wozniak's mokuhanga work represents a deliberate reach across print families, situating Japanese woodblock methods within a Polish university curriculum that has historically emphasized lithographic and intaglio traditions.