Woodblock carver David Bull refuses to be called an "artist" or "sensei."
"I'm just the guy who carves a piece of wood," Bull said. "All I do is copy what the real artists did."
Since 1989, the Canadian university dropout who once played the flute on the streets of Canada and England has spent many hours bent over his woodblock, nose and beard almost touching the surface, as he carved toward a self-appointed goal: the recreation of 18th century ukiyo-e artist Katsukawa Shunsho's "Hyakunin Isshu One Hundred Poems from One Hundred Poets" series.