Forest Production investigates Georgia’s agricultural and industrial processes as they respond to the growing demand for corrugated cardboard worldwide. Georgia’s production pine forests cover vast land tracts throughout the state. Their timber products include paper pulp used for cardboard – one of Georgia’s leading economic industries. Fueled by the explosion in e-commerce over the last decade, cardboard boxes are an increasingly common part of human experience. The act of opening an amazon package ties a person to farmland and production plants shaped by agrarian policies developed as long ago as the post-civil war period. The cardboard boxes I use are all drawn from my personal life or my position as a studio manager. They are incised with laser cut imagery/ textures of pine forests and timber cultivation, to reclaim the materiality, “objectness”, and identity that they lose as they change from natural resources to anonymous ubiquitous supply logistics. Historically, the forests of Georgia were made up of Long Leaf Pine which help maintain viable habitats for many species of native plants and animals. Long Leaf Pine require occasional burning of their underbrush for healthy growth. This can be a hurdle to the forest products industry frequently leading landowners to grow other varieties of pine. The Loblolly Pine is often chosen instead of the Long Leaf Pine to grow in production forests.