Bandung Indonesia

Bandung, the capital of West Java, sits on a volcanic plateau and is associated with early-twentieth-century Dutch colonial architecture, batik traditions, and Sundanese visual culture. Hodaka travelled in Indonesia and incorporated motifs from the region into his prints. This work likely draws on architectural detail, patterned textile, or street signage observed in Bandung, abstracted into flat color planes and layered photo-etched textures. His Indonesia prints typically combine hand-cut blocks printed by [baren](/glossary/baren) on [washi](/glossary/washi) with photographic image transfer, producing dense surfaces where craft technique meets mechanical reproduction. Where his elder brother Toshi continued the family tradition of representational landscape mokuhanga, Hodaka pushed the woodblock toward modernist abstraction informed by international travel. The print situates Bandung within his ongoing project of distilling place into formal pattern, treating the cultural texture of Indonesian modernity as raw material for composition rather than as ethnographic subject.