{"title":"Fingerprints","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEvery tree leaves one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThese prints are pulled by hand from wood slabs before they become furniture. The slab is processed using shou sugi ban — an ancient Japanese charring technique that opens the grain and burns the surface down to its essential structure — then painted with ink and pressed directly onto paper. One pass. What transfers is exactly what the wood holds: its rings, its cracks, its knots, the particular way it grew for the decades or centuries it had.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNo two impressions are alike, even from the same slab. Pressure shifts. Paint moves. The hand finds a different angle. Each print is unrepeatable — not a reproduction, not an edition, but a direct record of a specific surface at a specific moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe slabs that made these prints go on to become tables, benches, and consoles. The print is what the wood left behind before it became something else. You can own both, or either. Some slabs will produce a single print. Some will produce many. All of them are documented here, organized by the wood they came from.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrinted on acid free paper. Each print is one of one. Dimensions and available works vary by slab.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-1-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 1 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEvery slab teaches you something the last one didn't. This was the first pull from this cedar — the impression made before the wood's personality was fully understood. How much ink it would hold. Where the grain would resist. What pressure the hand needed to find. The adjustments made after this pull shaped every print that followed. It is not the most refined of the twelve. It is the most honest. The record of first contact between this wood and this hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562832314621,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26001Cedar82.jpg?v=1779471396"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-2-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 2 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe first pull found the slab. This one starts to know it. The hand had learned the surface — how much the cedar would take, where the grain wanted to move — and something opened up. What transfers here isn't just the structure of the wood but its character: the surge in the upper grain, the wide sweep below, the places where the ink ran dark and the rings dissolved into pure texture. Less a record, more a conversation. The tree had 82 years of things to say. This is where it started saying them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562860495101,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26002Cedar82.jpg?v=1779474337"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-3-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 3 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eBy the third pull, the hand and the wood had reached an understanding. What emerged here is the slab's architecture — two distinct centers of growth, their rings orbiting separately before converging at the bottom of the frame. The crack runs through the upper field like a fault line, white against the dark grain, neither decorating nor damaging — just marking where the wood made a decision about itself long before anyone pressed ink to its surface. The corners open into negative space. The composition found itself. This is the print where the slab stopped being a surface and became a place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562863509757,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26003Cedar82.jpg?v=1779474563"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-4-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 4 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThis is the pull where nothing was held back. The ink is full, the pressure committed, the grain pushing to every edge of the paper as if the slab refused to be contained. What reads in the earlier prints as structure reads here as force — the same 82 rings, but darker, closer, more insistent. White ray lines cut across the field in every direction, the wood's internal geometry asserting itself through the ink. The crack runs through the center and barely registers against everything surrounding it. Of the series, this one takes up the most space — on the wall and in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562866327805,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26004Cedar82.jpg?v=1779474733"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-5-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 5 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAfter the full force of the fourth pull, the slab showed its edge. The lower right opens into paper — not absence, but boundary — the place where the wood simply ended and the tree became something else. What transferred here is weighted and asymmetric: the rings sweep in from the left in long, even arcs, unhurried, marking years of steady growth. A small knot eye holds the upper left, dark and fixed, while the grain moves around it without apology. The composition doesn't balance. It doesn't need to. This is what the slab actually was — not centered, not symmetrical, but specific.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562866917629,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26005Cedar82.jpg?v=1779474874"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-6-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 6 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEverything shifted here. The ink reads differently against it: darker, earthier, older. The grain moves like weather across the surface, turbulent in the upper field where the ink is heaviest, then pulling downward into a slow vortex at the center. Knot voids scatter across the composition like debris — small white openings in the dark, each one marking where a branch once was. The crack cuts diagonally through the upper right, sharp and unambiguous. This tree came down in a storm. Of all twelve prints, this one remembers it most clearly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562874257661,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26006Cedar82.jpg?v=1779475081"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-7-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 7 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe slab returned to itself — balanced in a way none of the other pulls quite achieved. Two lobes, two ring systems, each orbiting its own center, the crack between them running clean from top to bottom before opening into space at the lower edge. They are not mirror images. Look closely and the left reads differently than the right — different density, different rhythm, different years. But from any distance, they hold together as one thing. The crack is not a division. It's the axis the whole composition turns on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562875797757,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26007Cedar82.jpg?v=1779475419"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-8-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 8 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe same two lobes, the same crack — but loaded differently, pressed harder, the ink given more say. Where the seventh pull found balance, this one found weight. The grain presses to the upper edges and holds there, dark and consuming, while the lower field opens gradually — both lobes dissolving at the bottom as if the slab is slowly releasing its grip on the paper. The crack between them runs white and bright against all that darkness, more pronounced here than in any other pull. The ray lines fan out across the lower right in fine, clear arcs — the wood's quietest detail visible only because everything around it went so dark. Same tree. Completely different print.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562880155901,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26008Cedar82.jpg?v=1779475623"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-9-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 9 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe slab found a new angle here. The crack that ran straight in earlier pulls now cuts diagonally — wide and open, almost a canyon — dividing the composition into two different worlds. The lower left holds a nearly complete ring system, self-contained and legible, every year of the tree's life visible in tight succession. The upper field moves in the opposite direction: turbulent, dark, the grain surging toward the upper right and off the edge of the paper. A knot void sits in the lower left like a fixed point while everything else moves around it. This is the most restless print of the series. The same wood, turned slightly — and everything changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 20\" x 16\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562883072253,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26009Cedar82.jpg?v=1779475794"},{"product_id":"wisconsin-cedar-82-rings-10-of-12","title":"Wisconsin Cedar · 82 Rings · 10 of 12","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe only vertical print in the series — and it changes everything. The same slab, turned to portrait, and suddenly the grain reads differently: taller, more singular, more like a presence than a landscape. One growth center dominates the upper field, the rings radiating outward and downward in tight, energetic arcs before the composition opens into white at the lower edge where the crack widens into open space. Eleven prints were made horizontally. This one wasn't. Whether that was intention or discovery, it produced something the others couldn't — a print that stands rather than spreads. It will hang differently on a wall. It will read differently in a room. 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The crack between them curves like a river finding its course one final time. There is nothing left to take from this surface. The slab that made these twelve prints goes on now to become something else — a table, a bench, a thing people will gather around for decades without knowing what it left behind here. This is what it left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDimensions: 14\" x 11\" matted\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Slab Theory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562892148989,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/files\/STFP26012Cedar82.jpg?v=1779476348"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/5327\/6669\/collections\/ST_FP_26_006_Cedar_lifestyle.jpg?v=1779470683","url":"https:\/\/slabtheorystudio.com\/collections\/fingerprints.oembed","provider":"Slab Theory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}