Cut Your Teeth on This is a body of variable relief prints produced from sections of Douglas fir logs sourced from active forestry sites in the Pacific Northwest. Each log is printed after the removal of limbs and bears the distinctive grid-like impressions left by the delimbing and debarking head of an industrial processor—one of the earliest mechanical interventions visible on harvested timber

This work records those impressions as material artifacts of the forestry process, translating the interface between natural growth patterns and mechanized extraction into a field of textured marks. By inking the log’s surface and transferring the relief directly onto paper or canvas, Crowle preserves both the anatomy of the tree and the standardized imprint of industrial machinery. The works position these surfaces as documents of a larger extractive choreography—where organic form and industry converge.