Margaret White Art - Flux - Prints Drying

This image documents prints from White's Flux series drying after pulling, rather than a finished print as a discrete object. The drying stage is a structural step in mokuhanga and linocut workflow: prints are typically blotted between absorbent sheets or hung to allow water-based pigments and the dampened [washi](/glossary/washi) to release moisture without cockling. Flux as a series title points to a thematic concern with change, transformation, or movement — consistent with her landscape and seascape subjects elsewhere in the catalogue, where tidal estuaries, falling water, and shifting forest light recur. The inclusion of a process image alongside finished works in her catalogue reflects a practice common to contemporary mokuhanga artists, who treat the workshop and its tools as part of the work's identity, partly in response to the International Mokuhanga Conference's emphasis on technique, papermaking, and material origin.