Jeannie Wong - Potato Stamps Variation Vol I

The title suggests a portrait or homage to Jeannie Wong rendered through a deliberate engagement with potato stamping, a rudimentary printmaking technique typically associated with introductory or domestic mark-making. Translating those organic, hand-cut shapes into the disciplined vocabulary of mokuhanga involves the artist negotiating between irregular block surfaces and the precise registration (kento) that water-based woodblock printing demands. The work likely retains the soft, slightly uneven edges characteristic of stamped impressions, with pigment soaking into the washi rather than sitting on the surface as it would in oil-based relief printing. As a designated Volume I, the print frames itself as part of an iterative study, suggesting Wong is treating the potato-stamp form as a generative module to be repeated and varied. This sits alongside Wong's broader practice as a Hong Kong-based mokuhanga artist whose work, shown at the 2021 International Mokuhanga Conference exhibition in Nara, reflects how practitioners outside Japan are testing the medium's capacity to absorb pedagogical and vernacular mark-making traditions.