david knopp: when people first see my work i'm not sure if they look at it and go, "oh, that's a piece trees in the wintertime. bare of leaves, you can actually see the contours in the surfaces, and i'll interpret them into drawings. there's movement in my drawings, and i take that a step farther and try to keep the movement going on in my sculpture. i use no 3d software to design these, it's usually an intuitive process. i'll take a piece of 4x8 sheet of plywood and cut a template for a starting point maybe a nice curve and i'll just build off of that, one piece at a time, and come up with a rough basic shape of the piece itself. plywood in itself is not a very exciting material. you know, it's basically a construction product. it works well for me 'cuz i'm interested in the end grains of the plywood, because as i carve it, the strata, which act as lines you can express all kind of movement. it actually becomes the lines that your eyes follow. the process, to me is my way of kind of escaping. when i'm out in my studio working it's some of the best time i have. i try to let the work fl