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Another untitled sheet from the Mokumap series. Maurstig's working method in mokuhanga involves carving multiple blocks, typically of cherry or shina plywood, and printing them in sequence on dampened [washi](/glossary/washi), building image and structure layer by layer. The Mokumap project foregrounds this layering as content: the sheet becomes legible as a map precisely because its construction mirrors how maps are made, by superimposing distinct strata of information. [Bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations, achieved by brushing pigment unevenly onto the block before printing, can suggest depth, weather, or the indeterminate edge of a coastline. Based in Jølster, Maurstig draws on the Sunnfjord landscape (fjord water, granite, snow, low light) without rendering it descriptively. The series belongs to her broader practice across paper-based media, in which print, bookwork, and installation are treated as related ways of organizing surface and sequence.