Familiar Distance

This series emerged through the practice of mokuhanga, the traditional Japanese method of water-based woodblock printing. Drawn from lived observation—passing encounters, objects, fragments of daily life—each image began as a moment noticed and held long enough to be carved into wood.

The work considers how contemporary experience becomes memory. Familiar subjects are slowed through the physical processes of carving and printing, transformed into images that feel suspended outside of time. The grain of the wood, the accumulation of color, and the repetition inherent in printmaking all become part of that translation.

Created during a period of study and teaching in mokuhanga, the series reflects an ongoing interest in attention, material process, and the quiet significance of ordinary moments.