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This untitled woodblock print emerges from Abadal Lloret's full-time practice at the Art Print Residence, the international workshop near Barcelona that hosts visiting printmakers from across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. The residency context shapes the work: practitioners trained in different relief and intaglio traditions converge on mokuhanga as a shared, non-toxic vocabulary, and Abadal Lloret's prints are produced amid that exchange. Without a descriptive title, the print invites attention to its surface — the laid texture of washi, the variation of hand-pulled impressions, and the slight grain of the wood transferred through pigment. Her training under her parents at the International Printmaking School in Calella and Mataró equipped her with traditional European intaglio and lithographic methods; mokuhanga sits alongside those as a technique she has actively championed in residency teaching. The work belongs to a generation of European mokuhanga practitioners — affiliated with the IMC and university printmaking departments — who have adopted the Japanese method as both aesthetic and ethical choice.