Untitled work by Craig Vaughn Fisher

This untitled print belongs to the catalogue of an American mokuhanga artist working in the postwar Sōsaku Hanga tradition: every step from drawing to carving to printing carried out by Fisher himself, using water-based pigments, hand-carved blocks, and the impression of a baren on dampened washi. Untitled prints in Fisher's body of work are not arbitrary; they reflect a studio practice in which images are pursued as material investigations rather than illustrations of named subjects. The medium permits effects unavailable to Western relief printing — translucent layering, soft bokashi gradations, and the natural integration of pigment and paper fibers. Fisher's location in Toledo, Ohio, places his practice within an industrial city historically known for glassmaking and manufacturing, an unexpected but increasingly common context for mokuhanga in the United States. His prints typically appear in small editions, sometimes printed over the course of weeks as the paper, weather, and pigments demand.