Untitled

This untitled woodblock print belongs to Wozniak's ongoing investigation into the transposition of gesture — the translation of a drawn mark into a carved one. Working within the mokuhanga tradition he studied during his 2018 residency at the Tokyo University of the Arts, Wozniak treats the woodblock as a recording surface for the trace of the hand rather than as a vehicle for representation. The print likely engages with abstraction or near-abstraction, where the carved line itself, rather than any depicted subject, carries the work's content. Water-based pigment applied with a brush and printed by [baren](/glossary/baren) onto absorbent [washi](/glossary/washi) produces the soft, breathing edges characteristic of mokuhanga, distinct from the hard contours of relief printing on Western papers. As an academic printmaker heading the printmaking studio at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Wozniak's untitled series reflects the research orientation of his practice: each print functions as an experimental document within a sustained inquiry into mark, surface, and process rather than as a discrete pictorial statement.