In 2004 I shot a bunch of photos of my son, Max, wearing his hair a little spikey, shirtless in heavy boots. I wanted to refresh my moku-hanga woodblock printmaking skills. The prints were hand-pulled from 16 ash blocks using baren (traditional Japanese woodblock printmaking) on 23 x 13 inch sheets of Iwano Ichibei’s gorgeous paper. Pigments were dry graphite and carbon black in rice paste.
“Max – 2004 Fashion”, March 2013, 22.75 x 13 inches, woodcut from 16 blocks on handmade hosho by Iwano Ichibei