Snuki Inari 2024

AG505512
pencil frottage from 4 woodblocks and found plastic packaging
edition 30
20 x 20 cm image size (h x w)

In 2023 & 2024, I travelled to Japan for the first times, co-leading a study tour for RMIT School of Art university students. A mokuhanga (woodblock) workshop formed part of the study tour activities, for which I created a four-block image of my dog, Snukis. My husband had been sending me daily photos of him, so it was as though he was travelling with me. Snukis is dressed in a red kerchief and carrying a key, inspired by the statues of sacred foxes, or inari, I had seen guarding the local Shinto temples. The key is to the back door of my home.
On my return to Melbourne, I editioned the woodblocks as a multi-plate frottage for my 3rd year students’ exchange portfolio. This is one of the test frottages, which includes the addition of a unique frottage layer from found plastic

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