Nevertheless, after a few years researching the matter, I achieved technical success outside Japan and have taught the techniqueto numerous groups in Mexico and the U.S. For example, the tortillas one finds in Sweden are not real tortillas, they are made with alternate ingredients. Not finding the right ingredients and materials poses big drawbacks and this is why the moku hanga technique is almost inexistent in other parts of the world. Sometimes, when you attempt to do something outside its context, it can be quite difficult.

The Yoshida Hanga Academy, with a 4-generation family history in the field, offered for many years,to selected artists, the possibility to learn this traditional Japanese art technique.I was lucky to be accepted in their shop and I studied there from 1985 to 1989Years later, in 2005, lithographer Per Anderson and I, co-founded and developed ¨La Ceiba Gráfica¨,with the help of a number of local artists.It is now Mexico's most dynamic graphic arts center with a residency program.There, I begun to ¨adapt the Japanese technique to Mexico¨. Nevertheless, this technique has continued up to this day,mostly in Japan, with contemporary art. However, in the Western world little is known about other well developed and rich techniques from Asia, such as Moku hanga, the Japanese wood block printing technique, better known as Ukiyo-E through the works of Hokusai, Hiroshige, Yoshida or Kunisada. A lot of the work done by Picasso for instance, was done with etching. MOKU HANGA Having studied 4 years at the Yoshida Hanga Academy in Tokyo, I have been teaching Moku Hanga internationally at universities, art institutions and schools In the visual arts world, within the graphic arts, we have techniques such as etching, lithography, woodcut, serigraphy, photography, and now computer graphics.

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