IMC 2024 Echizen submission

Submitted to the International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture in 2024, this print was produced for an exhibition tied to one of Japan's oldest centers of [washi](/glossary/washi) production. Conference submissions typically involve printing on Echizen [kozo](/glossary/kozo) papers supplied to participating artists, encouraging close attention to how pigment and [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations behave on the specific sheet. Hudak's contribution sits within her broader mokuhanga practice, which translates her painterly investigations of landscape, weather, and unseen presences into the layered registration of the woodblock medium. Her work generally favors atmospheric fields of color, soft tonal transitions worked with the [baren](/glossary/baren), and abstracted natural forms drawn from observation of the Vermont woods and her years in East Asia, rather than figurative or narrative imagery. As an IMC submission, the print also functions as a record of dialogue between a non-Japanese practitioner and the Japanese paper, tools, and water-based pigments at the heart of the tradition, aligning with the conference's mandate to support the international expansion of mokuhanga while keeping its material practices intact.