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bonsaiTALK ArchMaster
Join Date: Sep-2002
Location: Roseville Michigan
Country: USA
Posts: 2,431
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Originally Posted by rockm
"Is not Bonsai training a reproduction of nature?"
No. It is not. It is man's interpretation of nature--which is much more than simple reproduction.
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Simple reproduction is for lack of a better term likened to a photograph. Bonsai is more of an attempt to capture the essence and mood of a natural tree. The results are more surrealistic than realistic. A better way of looking at it might be to compare a musical composition. It is obvious that music cannot capture the image of water or a water fall, or a sea shore but some pretty clever composers have been able to capture the mood and feel and rhythm of such things with sounds and the like. The end result usually calls these type of things to mind. This is what bonsai should do. It is in this effort that bonsai becomes truly an art in that it is representing something that it is only organically related to.
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The only finished bonsai is a dead one; me 1992 MABA Des Moines Iowa
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