IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was Stone's contribution to the International Mokuhanga Conference 2024, an Echizen-themed submission tied to the conference's recognition of Echizen [washi](/glossary/washi) -- the centuries-old paper tradition from Fukui Prefecture that remains a benchmark substrate for mokuhanga practitioners worldwide. Submission prints of this kind are typically printed on a sheet of Echizen [kozo](/glossary/kozo) washi supplied to participants, allowing the conference to showcase a single paper rendered through the hands of dozens of international printmakers. As a [baren](/glossary/baren) maker as well as a printer, Stone's work tends to demonstrate close attention to pressure, registration, and the interaction between block, pigment, and fibre -- variables he understands from both sides of the bench. His IMC contributions sit alongside a body of work that spans landscape, still life, and observational subjects drawn from his Tuscan and Californian surroundings, and reflect his fifteen-year engagement with the medium since beginning mokuhanga at forty. The print exemplifies the conference's founding aim: linking dispersed practitioners to the Japanese material lineage that anchors the form.