Dr Julia Shaw, phootgraphed in her apt in London, UK. Dr. Julia Shaw is a psychological scientist (UCL) and a science communicator. She is best known for her work in the areas of memory and criminal psychology

This print depicts Dr Julia Shaw, a psychological scientist at UCL whose work addresses memory and criminal psychology, photographed in her London apartment. The domestic setting — rather than a clinical or academic backdrop — gives Artz's mokuhanga a particular tonal register, with interior architecture and personal objects reduced to flat color fields against which the figure is registered. Each color in the print corresponds to a separately carved block, inked with water-based pigment and pressed into the washi with the baren. Soft passages, such as the modeling of skin or the diffusion of window light, are introduced through bokashi gradients applied with a damp brush before each impression. The choice of subject — a researcher concerned with the unreliability of memory — pairs suggestively with a medium whose every impression is an act of selective retention: what the carved block holds is what remains, while everything else is cut away. The print sits within Artz's wider practice of commissioned portraits of contemporary intellectual and creative figures.