My Garden / Heart & Succulent (detail)

A close-range view of the same work, foregrounding the meeting point of woodblock pigment, digital print, and embroidered thread. At this scale the textile structure of the Korean hemp ground becomes legible — its open weave both receiving the water-based pigment differently than washi would and providing the lattice through which Shin's needle passes. The detail makes visible decisions concealed at full scale: the slight bleed of mokuhanga pigment into the hemp's irregular fibres, the crisp registration of rubber-stamped marks, and the raised relief of stitching that elevates parts of the image into a low bas-relief. Embroidery worked directly into a printed surface is a recurring strategy in Shin's practice, drawing on her training as a printmaker in Japan and her self-taught embroidery practice begun in childhood. The detail emphasises the work's material hybridity, where image and object coincide and where the conventional flatness of a woodblock print is interrupted by tactile incursion.