Rococo Puff

Rococo Puff (2007) references the ornamental excess of eighteenth-century European decorative style through an abstract mokuhanga composition. The title implies rounded, billowing forms — curvilinear shapes printed with graduated bokashi washes that build soft tonal transitions through repeated baren burnishing. Vollmer often uses multiple blocks and color layers to achieve depth in abstract work, and the Rococo reference suggests layered, voluptuous forms built from pale, powdery pigment. The mokuhanga medium — water-based pigments on dampened washi — is particularly suited to this kind of airy, diffused color, where Western oil-based printmaking would produce harder edges and flatter tones.