Untitled work by Ariadna Abadal Lloret

Untitled within Abadal Lloret's mokuhanga production, this print should be read alongside her advocacy for non-toxic printmaking — the throughline of her work since transitioning from biology to full-time printmaking at the family studio. Mokuhanga suits that advocacy: its pigments are bound with water and rice paste, requiring neither solvents for cleanup nor acids for plate preparation, and its waste stream consists of paper, pigment, and wood. Carved blocks are registered through kentō, inked with brush rather than roller, and pressed by baren onto dampened washi — a sequence that allows fine bokashi gradients and translucent overprinting through layered impressions. As a Catalan practitioner working at the Art Print Residence, Abadal Lloret operates within a community that approaches the Japanese tradition both as technical inheritance and as ecological proposition. The print can be situated within a wider contemporary mokuhanga discourse — represented at events such as the International Mokuhanga Conference — that treats process selection itself as a meaningful artistic decision.