Stella Morgan

A portrait of Stella Morgan rendered as a mokuhanga print, drawn from one of Andrea G. Artz's photographic sittings and reworked through carved blocks and water-based pigments printed on [washi](/glossary/washi) by hand with a [baren](/glossary/baren). As with the rest of the series, the composition is likely centered on the head and shoulders, isolated against a neutral ground so that the sitter rather than the setting carries the work. The face is built from layered color passes — a darker key block defining contour, lighter blocks filling in flesh and hair — with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) applied where the modeling needs to soften, particularly along the cheek and the curve of the jaw. The print's surface retains the slight fiber relief of hand-burnished washi, marking it as an analogue object derived from a digital source. Within Artz's broader practice, which moves between photography, print, and three-dimensional folded paper figures, the Morgan portrait sits as one of the flat works from which the dimensional installations are eventually constructed.