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Attila Soos
Join Date: Jan-2002
Location: Los Angeles, California
Country: USA
Posts: 2,035
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What I find so appealing in Nick’s work is that his trees have many different visual meanings, thus engaging the eye and the mind at different levels. You can take the image, flip it, and come up with something carrying a different context.
The closest thing his art reminds me is the Chinese art of objects found in nature, such as root carvings and scholar’s rocks. I am not sure whether he was inspired by this art form, or if he is even aware of it. With scholar’s rocks and root carvings, you could look at an object as a natural landscape, a mythical creature, or an interesting and randomly shaped object, all in the same time. Depending on what your mind is focused on. The forms of these objects take on a metaphysical dimension due to this unique character.
Lately, I am finding myself to value this attribute more and more in bonsai. It has to do with random events giving the tree a unique form, impossible to duplicate by man.
Your first black pine and the hackberry has some of the character I am talking about.
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