Each wood cookie becomes an image.

Using traditional wood-block printing techniques, every slice is inked and hand-pressed onto archival paper. The end-grain impression, the tree’s internal rings, forms the “sun” at the center of the print.

Hand screen-printed layers and subtle foil accents surround the impression, echoing the optical phenomenon known as a Sun Dog: a halo of light formed not by a single source, but by the refraction of countless ice crystals.

These prints are where the symbolic become physical. Individual marks are preserved, measured, and framed, transformed into a visual language that reflects how light, ideas, and relationships reveal themselves through shared perspectives.

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Before there is paper, there is fiber.

The prints are made on Japanese sourced archival paper derived from Kozo, a mulberry plant cultivated, harvested, and processed through centuries-old methods. The fibers are long, resilient, and luminous, prized for their ability to hold detail while remaining alive to light.

This bundle represents the invisible labor beneath the image: the growers, harvesters, and craftspeople who transform natural material into a surface capable of carrying meaning across generations.

The Sun Dog Fiber connects Slopes to a deeper lineage of making: where technology, tradition, and human care are not opposing forces, but collaborators.