IMC 2024 Echizen submission

This print was Swinimer's accepted submission to the Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition at the Fifth International Mokuhanga Conference, held in Echizen, Japan in 2024, where she was selected for the Americas regional showing. As a contemporary mokuhanga work, the print would have been produced using the traditional Japanese water-based woodblock method: pigments mixed with nori paste and water, hand-printed onto [washi](/glossary/washi) with a [baren](/glossary/baren) rather than a press. The IMC juried exhibitions favor work that engages with mokuhanga as a distinct medium rather than transposing other printmaking idioms onto wood, so submissions typically demonstrate handling of [bokashi](/glossary/bokashi) gradations, registration across multiple blocks, and the absorbent surface qualities particular to washi. Echizen, the host region, is itself a center of traditional washi production, lending the 2024 exhibition a direct connection to the paper craft underpinning the medium. The print sits within Swinimer's sustained engagement with mokuhanga, following her earlier selection for the IMC 2021 juried exhibition in Nara, and reflects the broader expansion of the water-based woodblock community among Canadian and other non-Japanese practitioners.