Untitled

This untitled print, exhibited at the 2021 IMC juried exhibition, is part of Egger's contribution to the conference's program around [sumi](/glossary/sumi). Juried selection for the IMC reflects review by an international panel and places a print alongside work by mokuhanga practitioners from across Japan, North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. Within that comparative field, contemporary mokuhanga works often differ from [ukiyo-e](/glossary/ukiyo-e) antecedents in subject — abstraction, landscape pared down to formal elements, and conceptual approaches are common — while sharing the underlying technical apparatus of carved blocks, water-based pigments, [washi](/glossary/washi) paper, and [baren](/glossary/baren) printing. Egger's representation of Austria at the 2021 conference reflects the medium's continued international expansion three decades into its post-Japan diffusion. The untitled designation lets the work be read as part of an ongoing studio practice rather than as a discrete narrative image.