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](/glossary/bokashi) washes that build soft tonal transitions through repeated [baren](/glossary/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](/glossary/washi) — is particularly suited to this kind of airy, diffused color, where Western oil-based printmaking would produce harder edges and flatter tones.