Untitled

An untitled mokuhanga by Idris Veitch, this print is produced through the Japanese water-based woodblock method in which each color is carved into a separate block of cherry or shina plywood and printed by hand-burnishing [washi](/glossary/washi) against the inked surface with a [baren](/glossary/baren). The absence of a title is consistent with a contemporary printmaking sensibility that prioritizes formal investigation — the interplay of carved line, layered transparent pigment, and the grain of the wood itself — over narrative subject matter. Working from Kingston, Jamaica, Veitch is among the rare Caribbean artists practicing mokuhanga, a tradition that arrived in his region not through historical contact but through the international circulation of the technique via teachers, publications, and organizations such as Mokuhanga Magic. Within this broader movement, untitled works often serve as documentation of process: a study of how water-based pigment behaves on dampened paper, or how multiple impressions accumulate into a single image.