Description -This beautiful piece of Black Walnut was found at a local sawmill in one of the end cut trash piles. When milling wood its typical to cut off the end of the logs prior to milling in order to square it up a bit. I see this as a perfect opportunity to turn another man's trash into treasure and honor the tree.
Each tree ring print is prepared and printed by hand in a small limited edition based on the number of growth rings/years, in this case approx 80. The wood is prepared by first sanding, torching, dampening and repeating until the growth rings are raised enough to print. Tree growth rings are made of springwood and summerwood, hence the name. Springwood is softer than the summerwood, therefore when heated the differences in density creates relief which is printable. Fun fact, the size gaps between the rings are also a direct correlation of how much rain was present that year.
Note: Each print is original and unique because of the subtle differences that hand printing creates.
