The Long View panoramic original hand-pulled black walnut tree ring print in black ink on white paper

The Long View

Original Signature Black
$165 CAD
Sale price  $165 CAD Regular price 
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The Long View panoramic original hand-pulled black walnut tree ring print in black ink on white paper

The Long View

$165 CAD
Sale price  $165 CAD Regular price 
Select your interpretation (colour):
Every Wooden Ink print is signed by hand. Your chosen orientation tells me where to place my signature.

✓ Every Wooden Ink print is an original, hand-pulled impression.
Please allow up to one week for your print to be prepared for shipping.
If your chosen print is already available in the studio, it may ship sooner.

Prints are shipped unframed, carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube on their full 30 × 16 inch sheet of archival paper. Frames shown are for display purposes only.
✩ Every Wooden Ink print includes a companion Tree Story Card and Species Card.

The Story of The Long View

Some trees ask us to slow down.

Unlike a perfectly round cross-section, The Long View doesn't reveal itself all at once. Your eye naturally travels from one end of the slab to the other, discovering subtle shifts in growth, changing grain patterns, and decades of quiet history along the way.

Sometimes the only way through the hardest years is to take the long view.

That thought has become deeply personal to me. My own journey through illness has taught me that healing rarely follows a straight path, and that hope is often found not in today's progress, but in the direction you're moving over time. Like the rings of a tree, recovery is built one season at a time. Looking back, the changes become visible in ways they never seemed to in the moment.

Perhaps that's why this slab speaks to me.

It reminds me that growth isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it is simply the quiet accumulation of one more year, one more ring, one more step forward.

FOREST
NOTES

Black walnut doesn't just grow tall — it grows deep. Young trees develop a strong taproot that can reach far into the soil, helping anchor the tree and giving it access to moisture below the surface.

As the tree matures, that deep root system is joined by an extensive network of lateral roots. Together they help a mature black walnut withstand wind, drought and changing conditions above ground.

Much of what keeps a tree standing is the part we never see.

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Why Hand-Pulled?

Every Wooden Ink print begins with a reclaimed tree and is hand-pulled from the original slab.

The Original Slab

The slab is the original manuscript. Carefully cut from reclaimed timber. Every print is one interpretation of the story it spent a lifetime writing.

Hand-Pulled

Every print is inked and pulled by hand using the original slab. No digital reproductions. No automated printing. Each pull carries the subtle character of the process.

Every Print is Unique

No two prints are exactly alike. Because your print is hand-pulled from reclaimed timber, slight variations in ink and pressure combine naturally to make your print uniquely yours.