IMC 2024 Echizen submission

Submitted to the juried exhibition at the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen and Tokyo, this print represents Matyas's contribution to the Europe and Africa regional showcase. The title identifies the work by its exhibition context rather than its imagery, which is characteristic of how IMC submissions are catalogued when they enter the conference record. As a mokuhanga, the print would have been produced using water-based pigments applied to carved cherry or shina blocks and pulled by hand with a [baren](/glossary/baren) onto [washi](/glossary/washi) — the same materials traditions that the Echizen venue itself is associated with through its centuries-old papermaking. The IMC juried exhibition selects work that engages with the technical vocabulary of Japanese woodblock printing — registration via [kento](/glossary/kento) marks, layered transparent pigment, and the particular surface a baren leaves on dampened washi — while allowing contemporary subject matter and abstraction. Matyas's selection situates her within the network of European practitioners who train in or adapt mokuhanga technique outside Japan, a community the IMC was founded in 2011 to convene every four years.