IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was submitted by David Roon to the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference, held in Echizen, a region in Fukui Prefecture renowned for over 1,500 years of [washi](/glossary/washi) papermaking. As an IMC submission, the work would have been printed on Echizen [kozo](/glossary/kozo) paper, the conference's signature support, and exhibited alongside contributions from mokuhanga practitioners worldwide. Roon's IMC entries typically demonstrate the water-based woodblock vocabulary he refined during his 2023 MI-LAB Basic Training Program A residency: hand-rubbed impressions made with the [baren](/glossary/baren), layered transparent washes built up through multiple block passes, and careful registration using [kento](/glossary/kento) marks. The use of nori paste as a pigment binder, combined with [sumi](/glossary/sumi) ink and mineral pigments, produces the characteristic tonal depth and matte surface of mokuhanga rather than the saturated opacity of oil-based relief printing. Within Roon's broader body of work, IMC submissions function as benchmark pieces — printed under residency conditions and shown to the international mokuhanga community, they document his ongoing engagement with the technique outside the studio context of MI-LAB.