Judit Prieto

Judit Prieto is part of Andrea G. Artz's ongoing portrait practice in mokuhanga, the water-based Japanese woodblock medium. The print likely depicts the named sitter in a composed view inherited from Artz's photographic work, then translated into the layered colour fields that mokuhanga requires. Carving reduces photographic continuous tone to a series of flat shapes; printing by baren onto washi reintroduces depth through bokashi gradation and the soft bleed of water-based pigment into long-fibred paper. Each impression sits within an edition rather than standing as a unique object, mirroring photography's reproducibility while accumulating the small material variations that hand-printing always produces. The portrait represents one node in a wider body of work in which Artz moves the figure between photographic, printed, and sculptural states, often folding photographic prints into filigree paper installations as a parallel inquiry into how a flat image of a person becomes physical.