IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This collaborative print by Paola Gonzalez and Javier Santander was selected for the juried Americas regional exhibition at the 2024 International Mokuhanga Conference (IMC), held in Echizen, Japan — a region historically associated with [washi](/glossary/washi) paper production. Created through traditional Japanese water-based woodblock methods, the work would have been printed with pigments applied via [baren](/glossary/baren) onto handmade washi, using [kento](/glossary/kento) registration to align successive block impressions. IMC juried submissions tend to be modest in scale ([oban](/glossary/oban) or smaller) and often emphasize layered color fields and [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradation rather than narrative figuration, drawing on the medium's affinity for soft tonal transitions. As a collaboration between two Chilean practitioners, the print sits within the expansion of mokuhanga into Latin America, a region underrepresented relative to the technique's established communities in Japan, North America, Europe, and Oceania. The IMC, convened every four years, functions as an international gathering for contemporary mokuhanga, and inclusion in its juried regional exhibition reflects peer review of technical execution. Specific imagery for this submission is not documented in available exhibition records.