Will_Heath

Walter,

Once again you cut right to the chase.

I often am chastised (crucified) for speaking my mind on the art of bonsai because I have not yet achieved great bonsai. Yet, I feel as someone who wished to advance in the art, I have a unique perspective from a novice standpoint.

When someone like yourself speaks about art, I listen, you Walter have created world class bonsai and continue to do so, what better source could one have for information or for inspiration?

These discussions are vital to me because I am forming the mindset that will be with me for years, the mindset that will show though in my bonsai, in my art.

What I don't understand is why such threads are attacked so readily. Why those who feel such conversations are vital are not allowed to discuss art by those who feel such discussions are a waste of time.. Even before the internet, people met, traveled, exchanged ideas, that is how bonsai spread from country to country in the first place. To suggest that there were no such discussions before the internet, is ridiculous.

Such attacks and nay saying are in fact detrimental to the art of bonsai, take myself for example, when I finally decide that discussing art is too much of a hassle here, I lose, my learning on that subject stops here. The excellent comments made by you, Vance Wood, and others there will cease to exist and bonsai as a craft will be the only discussion to read.


Will