Untitled work by Mara Cozzolino

A second untitled piece in Cozzolino's catalogue, produced through the same single-handed mokuhanga process that defines her studio practice — drawing, key-block carving, colour-block carving, registration via kentō notches, and hand-burnishing each impression with a baren onto Japanese paper. Without a stated subject, the print sits among the more exploratory entries in her output, where the artist has described working from things she loves rather than to commission or theme. Editions in her practice are small by the constraints of the method itself: every sheet is pulled individually, and colours are built up across multiple passes, with each block re-inked and re-registered for every impression. Cozzolino's preference for the water-based Japanese tradition over the western intaglio of her earlier years informs the particular surface qualities of her untitled works — the soft tonal layering available through bokashi gradation, the absence of an embossed plate-mark, and the matte, absorbent finish of washi.