Untitled

A third untitled mokuhanga by Griffin. Working in the water-based Japanese woodblock tradition, contemporary artists typically build images through layered impressions from separately carved blocks — sometimes a dozen or more for a single print — with each impression registered against the [kento](/glossary/kento) notch and corner cut into every block. The slight variation that hand-printing introduces from one impression to the next means each sheet in an edition differs subtly from its neighbours, a quality that contemporary practitioners frequently embrace rather than suppress. Griffin's body of work, encompassing IMC-exhibited and untitled pieces, reflects the position of mokuhanga in Ireland: a small practitioner community sustained by residencies (notably MI-LAB in Japan), conferences, and exchange between artists working largely in isolation from the historical Japanese workshop infrastructure. The untitled designation is consistent with sōsaku-hanga-derived contemporary practice that prioritises the printed object over narrative subject.