
Mokuhanga workshop in progress
- Image courtesy of
- Artist website (Soetkin Everaert)
Description
Documentary scene depicting a mokuhanga workshop mid-session, with participants bent over blocks at shared tables. The composition likely shows working surfaces strewn with the materials of the craft — kentō-registered cherry-wood blocks, brushes loaded with water-based pigment, dishes of nori paste, and baren in mid-stroke. As a print made about printmaking, it operates at a meta-level common in Everaert's practice with Mokuhanga Magic, the Belgium-based collaboration she co-founded with Vladimir Ivaneanu. Mokuhanga Magic functions as both a research initiative and a teaching platform, running workshops that introduce European practitioners to the Japanese tradition. The piece sits in dialogue with the Edo-period genre of shokunin-zukushi prints depicting artisans at work, while serving Everaert's documentary impulse to record contemporary practice in Europe. Carving and registration would have been planned to suggest depth across multiple figures and a cluttered workspace.






