IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This 2024 print was submitted to the International Mokuhanga Conference held in Echizen, the historic papermaking region of Fukui Prefecture whose washi has been produced for over 1,500 years and remains central to high-end mokuhanga practice. Brayer's choice to participate in the Echizen iteration is telling: her decades-long residence in Kyoto has been accompanied by deep engagement with Japanese paper as both substrate and subject, including her well-known paperworks made directly from kozo and other plant fibers. A submission print of this kind is typically pulled in a small edition and showcases the artist's current technical concerns — often a refined use of bokashi, layered transparencies, and the interaction between pigment and the specific Echizen washi sheet. The work represents Brayer's continuing role in the contemporary mokuhanga revival, a movement that the IMC has helped institutionalize as a global rather than purely Japanese practice.