These pieces are part of an ongoing series of drawings, collages and sculptures commemorating the lives and spirits of trees I have known and loved. Some trees toppled in storms, others died from Dutch Elm Disease before being cut into firewood and stacked in the woodshed for winter fuel. Many of the logs were just too beautiful to burn, with lustrous, curly grain and covered in mysterious hieroglyphics carved by elm bark beetles, so I brought them into my studio. Using Takuhon (ink rubbing), a traditional Japanese printmaking process, I formed wet Gasenshi paper on the wood and daubed ink on the raised surfaces to transfer the textures, casting and printing each log in sections. I then cut, folded and assembled them into 3-D objects, sometimes adding etched paper moths and other printed elements.