2024 spitzack satisfaction guaranteed cat fish woodcut print woodblock mokuhanga seattle art artist relief printmaking lino linocut

The title 'Satisfaction Guaranteed' frames this 2024 mokuhanga as a wry commercial parody, while the cat-and-fish pairing draws on imagery that has appeared in Japanese woodblock printing since Kuniyoshi's nineteenth-century cat compositions. Where Kuniyoshi's cats often parodied human figures through anthropomorphic role-play, Spitzack's pairing of cat and fish operates in a related register — predator and prey reframed as a transaction or service offering. The composition likely uses solid color blocks for the figures with patterning carved into the woodblocks to suggest fur, scales, or background texture. Mokuhanga's water-based pigments produce the matte, slightly absorbent surface that distinguishes the medium from oil-based Western relief printing, lending these humorous subjects a quieter visual register than poster-style equivalents would carry. The piece sits within Spitzack's broader body of cat-themed prints from 2024, the year of his International Mokuhanga Conference recognition. The tagline-style title indicates the playful commercial language that runs through his contemporary printmaking.