IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This 2024 print was created by Katie Baldwin for the International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, Japan, a town long associated with the production of [kozo](/glossary/kozo)-fiber [washi](/glossary/washi). Conference submissions of this kind are typically printed on locally made Echizen paper and circulated within exchange portfolios that document the state of contemporary mokuhanga practice. As a water-based woodblock print, the work would have been pulled by hand with a [baren](/glossary/baren) onto dampened washi, allowing the pigment to settle into the sheet rather than rest on its surface. Baldwin's contributions to such exchanges generally favor restrained palettes, hand-cut blocks, and compositions that draw on narrative or object-based imagery rather than pure abstraction, with [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations used selectively to model form. The submission situates her within the international community of practitioners who gather triennially at the IMC, and reflects her broader role as an American educator working to extend mokuhanga beyond Japan through teaching, collaborative portfolios, and conference participation.