New Day I

New Day I, an abstract relief print, is the first in what the title signals as a series and likely establishes a compositional or chromatic vocabulary that subsequent works develop. The designation 'New Day' suggests morning, renewal, or a threshold moment — themes common to Johnson's work and to the broader traditions of printmaking she engaged, including Japanese landscape printing in which dawn and seasonal transition carried formal and poetic significance. The relief technique may use open, airy compositions with forms that read as emergent — shapes breaking free from or rising within the pictorial field. As the first work in a series, the composition would establish the formal premises to which later prints respond. The print's palette probably includes light-valued or warm tones suited to the thematic of daybreak. Johnson's technical command of pressure, ink viscosity, and block surface allows for nuanced tonal variation even within the relief medium.