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This image functions as DeMaria's representative artist portrait rather than as a separately titled edition in her catalogue. The 'Woodblock print' caption indicates that the source is one of her mokuhanga works, consistent with the botanical and natural-world subjects that define her studio practice. Mokuhanga as DeMaria works in it depends on hand-rubbed [baren](/glossary/baren) impressions of water-based pigment into [washi](/glossary/washi), a method that yields the soft tonal gradations ([bokashi](/glossary/bokashi)) and layered transparencies well suited to organic forms — leaf veins, petal edges, and the modulated greens and browns of plant matter. Her engagement with this technique has carried her work to international venues, including the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference in Echizen in 2024, where her piece 'Heritage of Plants' appeared in the juried Americas exhibition. For a catalogued example of her output, see that submission.