Right place. Exactly the right time.
I just returned from a 4-day intensive Japanese woodblock print-making workshop.
....and now everything looks just a tad different. A little bit of Kitagawa Utamaro's floating world informs my brand new retinas.
I like what my head does when I carve my block of Linden wood.
When I ink the block and rub the paper, I am surprised to see the picture emerge from inside my head , through the wood , by way of the ink, into the material world.
This is fantastic!
The paper I'm using is made of mulberry fibers soaked for hours in a cool stream, by old women in a tiny village in Hokkaido.
When I moisten the paper to prepare it for the ink, I can hear them gossiping.
I made prints of a raven, an owl, a snake, and scarlet runner beans..
I'll see if I can scan them in to share here.
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