Little Linocuts (2016)

"Little Linocuts (2016)" is a group of small-format relief prints by Wuon-Gean Ho, made in the pocket-sized register she has worked in for years alongside her larger book projects. The set continues her practice of the print diary: a sequence of intimate, hand-pulled images, each on a small sheet, intended to be held close rather than hung at distance. Linocut at this scale demands compressed drawing—Ho typically narrows her marks to a few decisive carved gestures per block, with composition built from silhouette and negative space rather than fine internal detail. The 2016 group sits between earlier single-image linocuts such as "Dance" (2014) and her later, more structurally ambitious accordion-fold books, allowing her to test motifs at speed before they migrate into longer serialised works. Subjects across her small-format linocuts tend toward the domestic, the observed body, animals, and seasonal markers, often returning across years as she refines a recurring image. The grouped title indicates an editioned multiple meant to be read as a set, a strategy that links Ho's solo printmaking back to the Japanese tradition of haiga and [surimono](/glossary/surimono) albums.