Untitled

The seventh of Pittman's untitled mokuhanga prints in this group. Like the others, it is produced through the water-based Japanese woodblock process, in which sumi or mineral pigment is mixed with rice paste on the carved block and transferred to dampened washi by manual pressure with the baren. Editions in contemporary mokuhanga tend to be small, both because hand-printing imposes physical limits on session output and because the dampened paper and water-based pigments behave somewhat differently across an edition, giving each impression slight individual character. The 2024 IMC Americas exhibition in Echizen, for which Pittman was selected, is one of the principal venues at which this work circulates internationally; the conference rotates between Japan and North America and has become a primary mechanism for transmission of the technique across the Pacific over the past decade and a half.