IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was submitted to the International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC) 2024 Oceania exhibition, held in Echizen — a town in Fukui Prefecture historically associated with washi production for over 1,500 years. The siting of the exhibition in Echizen carries technical significance, as much contemporary mokuhanga relies on locally produced kozo papers from this region. Without documentation of the specific imagery, the work can be situated within the conventions of contemporary IMC submissions, which typically employ water-based pigments, hand-burnishing with the baren, and multiple-block registration on dampened washi. Contemporary practitioners working in this exhibition context often combine traditional bokashi gradation techniques with modernist or abstract subject matter, departing from the figurative ukiyo-e tradition. Suzuki's contribution to the Oceania exhibition reflects a curatorial emphasis on diasporic and cross-cultural mokuhanga practice — Japanese-Australian, Japanese-American, and Japanese-European artists who maintain technical continuity with the Edo-period workshop tradition while operating within Anglophone print communities. Her participation marks her as part of the post-2010 generation of mokuhanga artists for whom the IMC has become the primary international convening institution.