![]() ![]() I'm even confused trying to write about it. The tricky part for me is needing to constantly consider the direction of the grain of the layer below the layer I'm carving. The blocks are made of a plywood and in order to get a nice clean print one must carve into the lower layers of the ply wood. This requires much more planning than what I am used to. For the past week I have been spending my days carving blocks. ![]() Since then we have been on our own (even our 'housemother' Keiko returned to Tokyo!) and each of us settling into a routine, turning our focus to the three editions we must create using the moku hanga technique of printmaking. I am finishing up my fifth week in Japan and the time is just flying by. Unfortunately the right edge of the first image was cropped, leaving out the knee of the woman in image two, but i think you can get the gist. I was inspired by the triptychs shown to us by Mr Ueba-san, our printing sensei, and wanted to create three pieces that could be viewed alone or together. All in all, I spent six long days printing my final editions. In the end, each image is an edition of eight. I learned a lot during these marathon days of printing and decided to have another go at the first image, which went much better the second time around. After another 16 hour day, the third edition of prints was completed this time I was left with 10. I am not a superstitious person, but decided to approach the third edition in exactly the same fashion. The second edition came together very well and after a 16 hour stint in the studio, I completed 12 decent prints. Discouraged but not defeated, I began the second edition in the wee hours, the following morning. I am not a superstitious person, but the final passage was printed on Friday, November 13. I was quite disappointed to end up with only four decent prints after starting out with a possible 14. It came together nicely until the very last passage of color, then it all sort of fell apart. Being very unsure of myself, the first edition took me three days to print. I began printing my final editions last week.
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