Untitled work by Alex Mankiewicz

Mankiewicz works across editorial illustration, graphic narrative, and gallery printmaking, and his untitled mokuhanga prints sit in the third of these categories. The distinction matters in production: editorial work is made to accompany a text and is reproduced offset or digitally at scale, while a mokuhanga gallery print is the finished object itself, made in small editions from carved blocks and printed by hand on washi. The same graphic vocabulary — flat colour, decisive line, compositional economy — operates in both contexts, but the material conditions and modes of reception differ. Untitled gallery prints free Mankiewicz from the explanatory function of editorial illustration, where an image must read against a specific article or commission brief. Here the print stands alone, evaluated on its formal terms and on its physical qualities as a hand-pulled object.