John Edgar

John Edgar, from Reed's MANZ - Medal Art New Zealand series, honors the New Zealand sculptor known for working with stone — basalt, granite, marble — often in inlaid, geometrically precise forms that engage measurement, weight, and the fault line between materials. The mokuhanga print likely translates Edgar's vocabulary of paired and laminated stones, cross-sections, and crystalline planes into the flat language of the carved block. As Reed's submission to the 2021 IMC sumi-themed juried exhibition in Nara, the work would emphasize black ink, with the depth and density of stone evoked through bokashi gradations and the textural pressure of the baren on dampened washi. Kento registration enables the clean meeting of inlaid forms — a printed analogue to Edgar's joinery in stone. The portrait sits within the MANZ set's wider concern with relief, weight, and inscribed surface, drawing a quiet line between the carved block, the struck medal, and the cut and polished stone — three traditions of marking material with intention.