Untitled

An untitled work in mokuhanga, this print belongs to Pittman's ongoing engagement with the Japanese water-based woodblock technique. The medium's defining characteristics — pigment bound with rice paste, hand-burnished impressions taken on dampened [washi](/glossary/washi), and the use of carved [kento](/glossary/kento) registration marks to align successive blocks — are constants in the practice regardless of subject matter. Pittman's choice not to assign descriptive titles to her prints invites consideration of the work's material register: the depth of pigment penetration into the paper fiber, the precision of color registration, and any variation between impressions that arises from the hand-pulled process. The artist's inclusion in the 2024 IMC Americas exhibition in Echizen positions her within a network of practitioners actively working outside Japan, many of whom have studied with Japanese masters or at programs like the Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory. The print contributes to the visible record of contemporary mokuhanga as a transnational practice.