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Greybeard
Join Date: Aug-2001
Location: Fresno, CA
Country: USA
Posts: 5,199
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I too, have seen terrible examples of grotesque nebari. I agree, that the eye is drawn to them like a pimple on the end of your nose. so....
I offer this as food for thought only.
Are we not talking about living sculpture here? Trees, and their asscociated, roots, trunks, branches and leaves, grow as time marches by. To say that I have never seen a tree like that in nature is a misnomer. To have the photo of the tree like I have presented is a perfect example of a tree like that in nature. Does the tree have to be in the ground on some busy street corner to count?
Does not the tree offer a model of how a tree "could" me grown in the ground. Why can't we turn it around? Which came first the bonsai or the tree? Does nature have to provide models for all bonsai?
Look at photo 2 which, BTW, I think contains as many as 5 trunks, flows frome the trunk into a perfect curving form into the soil. The flare of the first branches and the subtle trunk combined with the smooth gracefull flow of the nebari, captures, I think, the most perfect model in any artists repertoire could contain, "the nude female body". The outline of this tree is classic. The perfect curves. I have included a pic of the tree "planted" in the pot. When looking at the tree now, the tree is somehow missing its life blood. You can't say that the oil spill has not added weight and power to the tree. This tree is just not powerful like this. The tree has just gained back about 100 years to its life. The fountain of youth has been found. This tree looks juvenile. To be fair I have not removed the flare at the base.
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