Hex

'Hex' from 2006 is an abstract mokuhanga work whose title operates across several meanings: a hexagonal geometric form, a spell or curse, and the German word for witch. Vollmer's abstract works often carry titles that introduce conceptual friction with the formal content, and 'Hex' is consistent with that practice. A hexagonal compositional structure would provide strong geometric logic while referencing natural tessellation — the honeycomb, the basalt column, the patterned skin of certain insects — a concern that recurs across her insect-themed works of the same period. Mokuhanga's layered water-based pigments could render such geometry with soft edges and tonal variation across hexagonal fields, distinguishing this from the hard geometry of Western geometric abstraction. The 2006 date places it alongside 'Attractor,' suggesting a sustained period of investigation into systemic, pattern-based abstraction using Japanese printmaking materials.