"Two Mailboxes" is a series of mokuhanga prints, sized 19.5 by 19.5 cm. I drew based on memory and took photos with my phone. Then I experimented with colors, a mix of inks, to capture the narrative feeling. I initially thought that the green mailboxes carried only domestic mail, and the red ones only international or out-of-town mail, as the labels on them were nondescript and vaguely placed in relation to the chutes. These fronts are cute. Thinking they were going to different places, I picked contrasting colors. I like mailboxes because I walk by them. And I love sending postcards from faraway places—cards from a museum gift shop, printed with artwork I saw; a hello, a little story, a simple drawing, or even with some colorful stickers. Then I watch the card slip into the mail chute, a little message, carried to a distant friend.
Artists Kimmy Tseng and Jason Fujiwara showed me how to on woodcut and inking techniques.