 I'm Eric Pesso, I'm a wood carver, and I work in Dittmas Park Brooklyn. What I do is I work from logs. Every piece I've ever done is from a single log, and I attempt to make something beautiful from it. So I start with a model, and the model could be either a wire model, very, very simple, or it could be a clay model, and it depends on the nature of the piece. The first thing I do is draw on the log, and get a rough idea of where I'm going to start to carve. If it's a really large piece, I may even start with a chainsaw and just chain away some large chunks, but I really avoid it too much of that because this is complicated, and you cut away too much of this and the piece is destroyed. It's a long process. I'm working two or three pieces at a time, but I would say only do two or three pieces a year, so a given piece would take four to six months. I mean, I could take a year to do a piece. It doesn't matter if it's the right piece and it's working. It doesn't matter how long it takes. I work with local materials. In fact, materials all come from the streets of Brooklyn, from Prospect Park, many other pieces are from there. When I lived in Park Slope, I just walked pieces out with the commission of the parks department. Now I live in Dittmus Park. I have a lot of trees here, and that's the source of my material. So yeah, there's a real connection with Brooklyn here. I've lived in Brooklyn my entire life. I was born in Brooklyn. I was born in East New York. I went to Thomas Jefferson High School. I went to Brooklyn College. I'm a Brooklyn boy my entire life.