Jessica Prone

Jessica Prone depicts the model lying face down, the back of the body presented as the primary surface for the print's tonal description. The prone pose offers an extended view of the spine, scapulae, and the gradual modeling of the back into the legs — a configuration that calls for sustained tonal range rather than sharp contour. Lyon's mokuhanga method, in which photographic source material is translated into halftone and carved into woodblocks by CNC, is well suited to this kind of subject: the printed image resolves continuous flesh tones from a dense field of small carved marks, registered across multiple blocks and printed by hand on [washi](/glossary/washi). The result reads simultaneously as a photograph and as an unmistakably hand-printed object, retaining the embedded fiber, soft edges, and matte surface of traditional Japanese woodblock. Within the Jessica sequence, the prone study completes a postural inventory — turning, reclining frontally, reclining from behind, prone, seated — that documents a single sitter through the systematic observational rigor characteristic of Lyon's practice.