A “woodblock” print taken from an ash cylinder textured on the lathe using the same technique as with the central components of the sculptures. The pattern is partly from the natural grain of the wood overlaid with the grooves I cut. As the furrows are deepened the resulting ridges always break away at the weaker “early wood” layer of the grain creating a pattern suggesting text or a binary code of some sort, DNA, a player piano roll, morse code.  There is also an uncanny resemblance between that pattern and the tracks of the emerald ash borer in the cambium layer beneath the bark in the third photo.