Helen Hyde was an American printmaker who spent the better part of fifteen years living in Japan mastering the traditional woodblock printing techniques she had first encountered as a student in Paris. By the time she left Tokyo in 1914, she had signed an estimated 16,000 prints and built a reputation on both continents. None of that is why she ended up in Mexico. While most people recuperate from cancer surgery by reclining on a soft pillow laying on a bed, Helen Hyde did th