Untitled

A sixth untitled woodblock print from Kay Brown's body of work produced in the orbit of her 2024 MI-LAB Echizen residency. Contemporary mokuhanga, as taught at MI-LAB, retains the traditional toolkit — cherry or shina plywood blocks, the baren wrapped in bamboo sheath, water-based pigments mixed with rice paste — while leaving subject matter open to the practitioner's own visual vocabulary. The result, particularly in residency-period prints, is often a hybrid object: traditional in technique, contemporary in image. Brown's work, exhibited at IMC Europe in the same year and listed as representing England, participates in this hybrid mode. The decision to leave this print untitled is consistent with practice in much current mokuhanga, where artists prefer to let the print speak as a tactile and chromatic object rather than as illustration. The work likely demonstrates the controlled tonal range achievable when pigment density is varied across multiple impressions on absorbent washi.