Hans_Zimmer

A water-based woodblock portrait of the German film composer Hans Zimmer, whose work for orchestra and electronics has shaped contemporary cinema scoring. The print follows the workflow underpinning Andrea G. Artz's portrait series: a digital photographic source is colour-separated, the principal lines are cut into a key block of cherry or shina ply, and additional blocks are carved for each tonal field before being printed in registration on washi with a baren and water-based pigments bound in nori. Bokashi gradations carry what would, in the photograph, be the continuous fall of light across the face. The translation flattens depth into discrete colour layers, so that the sitter's likeness is built up incrementally through registered impressions rather than captured in a single exposure. Within Artz's wider practice — which spans photography, collage, folded paper sculpture, and installation — the mokuhanga portraits act as a hand-made counterpart to her digital source material, holding the same image still long enough to be re-drawn, re-cut, and re-printed by hand.