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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
Join Date: Oct-2004
Location: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Posts: 87
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Well Al it's 6 hours since you posted this and 26 reads with no replys - not sure what this means, but I'll take the opposing view and see if we can get the discussion going.
Another thought provoking subject by Al Keppler, but what does it mean? And is it relevant in the scheme of things? Does ‘Over Exposure’ take away the magnificence of an exceptional bonsai example, or more to the point, how will ‘Over Exposure’ affect the future of bonsai?
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The time has come that trees of over exposed artists are starting to look average when compared to trees less seen.
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I can’t believe that you said that Al, but the fact that you did caused me to peruse the less seen bonsai in my local mall and at the local nursery and then hook on to the net for a bit more observation on some of the galleries but no, all this did was convince me that bonsai in general has a long way to go before the less seen trees offer any threat to the average masterpiece seen in most magazines.
If over exposure is defined as seeing the same bonsai masterpiece constantly, to the extent that your vision of it becomes blasé, then I agree, however I am sure that the same would apply to the Mona Lisa or Venus De Milo.
But what if over exposure did something worse? What if it encouraged so many hobbyists of all ages and limited funds and a lot of impatience to the art that and all that was produced was a diluted example of the Masterpieces that we had occasionally had the pleasure to witness.
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Books are published so fast now a days that what was breaking news last month is ho-hum this week. Throughout the past 4 decades books appeared very slowly if ever. If a new book came out in two subsequent years, that was news to celebrate. Now books are introduced almost monthly. In fact if someone is not introducing a new book on bonsai, some publisher will collect enough internet articles and just publish that. Why not? If it sells, isn’t that the American way?
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Guess what my friend – this is called economics. Decades ago there just weren’t the hobbyists around to make writing and producing a specialist bonsai book financially worthwhile – now, there are so many hobbyists that a new industry is beginning to evolve. While we are on this subject, I’ll enlighten you to another fact. Books aren’t written for the person who knows it all, has done it all and has seen it all, they are produced primarily for the beginner who is still thirsting for knowledge and will find and purchase it anywhere.
Jon
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