IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was Duvvuri's submission to the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference exhibition in Echizen, Japan, a triennial gathering that convenes practitioners working in the Japanese water-based woodblock tradition. Echizen, in Fukui Prefecture, is one of the historic centers of [washi](/glossary/washi) production, making it a fitting host for an exhibition oriented around the material foundations of mokuhanga. Submissions to IMC exhibitions are typically printed on hand-made washi using water-based pigments and the [baren](/glossary/baren), with editions kept small and often experimental in approach. Duvvuri's work in mokuhanga sits alongside her watercolor and works-on-paper practice, and her contributions to the medium tend to draw on the translucent layering and tonal gradation ([bokashi](/glossary/bokashi)) that the technique affords, rather than the saturated key-block-and-color approach of Edo-period [nishiki-e](/glossary/nishiki-e). As an Americas-region submission, the print represents the contemporary, internationalized branch of mokuhanga that has grown around the IMC since its founding in 2011, in which non-Japanese artists adapt the traditional toolkit to personal, often abstract or landscape-derived imagery.