2025
6″x8″” image on 11″x14″ kitakata paper
edition of 4
mokuhanga woodcut
A woodcut of the Bloedel guest house. This print depicts the play of light and shadow through the shoji screens and on the sand of the house and garden. It imagines a guest walking through the space when the house was freshly built.
The image was created from 8 blocks printed in 17 layers. The inks are watercolors with a combination of premade and hand ground sumi inks printed on kitakata paper.
The Japanese gardens at Bloedel Reserve on Bainbridge Island, Washington were created by Fujitaro Kubota in 1956. In 1961 Paul Hayden Kirk designed th eaccompanying guest house on those gardens. The guest house is a blend of Northwest Coastal Native American longhouse architecture and that of Japanese temples reflecting mid-century modern sensibilities.
From the Bloedel Community Creatives 2025 residency.
Shown at
Sugarwall Gallery
Amanda M Danford 