After a Bath

"After a Bath" situates a woman in the intimate, steamed aftermath of bathing — a subject with deep roots in Japanese printmaking, from Utamaro's sensual close-ups to Goyo's luminous post-bath bijin. Binnie approaches this charged subject with the traditional woodblock vocabulary of shin-hanga: layered color, bokashi gradations, and the attentiveness to skin and fabric that the genre demands. The result is both homage to a tradition and an original contribution to it, the contemporary eye evident in the naturalistic handling of the figure.