IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was Miliano's submission to the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference Echizen exchange, a recurring portfolio program in which participating artists print on standardized Echizen [washi](/glossary/washi) — the [kozo](/glossary/kozo)-fiber paper made in Fukui Prefecture and prized in mokuhanga for its strength, absorbency, and tonal warmth. The Echizen format imposes a shared paper and dimension across all submissions, focusing comparison on carving, registration, and pigment handling rather than support. Miliano's contribution likely extends his sustained tree and landscape vocabulary into the conference's exchange context, where his work circulates alongside prints from mokuhanga practitioners across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. His repeated participation in IMC events — the conference convenes every three years and rotates between Japan and partner host sites — has been a central thread in his practice, situating his Irish-based studio work within the international mokuhanga community. The Echizen submission represents both a technical exercise on a defined paper and a contribution to the contemporary corpus that the IMC exchange archives document.