Split

The title suggests a bifurcated field — a composition organized around a central division. In Jung's mixed-media practice, such a structure can be generated by the registration between techniques as well as by drawn or carved marks: a sharp seam between mokuhanga fields, or between a mokuhanga ground and an intaglio or silkscreened passage, produces a compositional division that the layered processes both create and complicate. The mokuhanga element, printed by hand with the baren onto washi in plant-based pigment, contributes soft-edged color that the silkscreen and intaglio marks can continue or interrupt. The plant-based dyes give the underlying color a tonal depth unavailable in synthetic inks. Split reflects the cross-medium orientation of Jung's studio practice over the past decade, in which mokuhanga has come to function alongside intaglio and silkscreen rather than replacing them. Her recent prints have been recognized at Japanese international print biennials, where her engagement with mokuhanga from a U.S. teaching position is shared by few American printmaking faculty.